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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the old wanderers consider the plains the most sacred of sacred grounds?
(a) It had no fences.
(b) It was fertile land.
(c) It had no European settlers.
(d) It was the center of the world.

2. What does Lola Bourne think Set is doing?
(a) Annihilating himself.
(b) Reconstructing himself.
(c) Forgetting himself.
(d) Enjoying himself.

3. What did Koi-ehm-toya's great-great grandson become?
(a) A grass dancer.
(b) A medicine man.
(c) A maker of shields.
(d) A painter.

4. What does the boy leave behind him?
(a) The sound of his laughter.
(b) The sound of his running.
(c) No sound at all.
(d) The sound of his crying.

5. What caused the Piegan people to continue to believe in the boy who turned into a bear?
(a) The bear came into the camp.
(b) The bear became a legend.
(c) Hunters returned from the woods with strange bear stories.
(d) A hunter shot the bear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Kiowa call the rent they charged for use of Indian land?

2. What did Koi-ehm-toya's great-great-grandson dream of in his old age?

3. What does Bent tell Set when Set sees a vision of Bent in the garden?

4. How unusual is Set's kind of breakdown?

5. The plains are a perfect equation of what two elements?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Set mean when he tells Lela that the bear stands against him, and that he is the bear?

2. How does Set's art change as his personality begins to disintegrate?

3. In his old age, what is the last thing that the shield maker dreams? Why is this dream of his significant?

4. For what does Grey thank Lola Bourne?

5. What does Grey see of Set beyond his physical appearance?

6. Why is it important to Dr. Terriman and Lola Bourne that Set dances?

7. Who is the boy that Set sees and hears in the garden of his old house?

8. Grey closes one calendar and opens another in Chapter Eleven of Book Two. What do these different calendars represent?

9. Why does each man of the Plains Indians look upon Tsoai first thing each morning?

10. What does Set feel as he opens the medicine bundle?

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