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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two cultures combine in Grey?

2. How old was Set when his father died?

3. What language does Grey grow up speaking?

4. What word does Dwight Dicks use to mean "excellent?"

5. What does Jason love best?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who first let Grey know that the bear was coming into her life?

2. Who is the mother and who is the child in Chapter Twelve of Book One?

3. What is the unanswered question, "Quien es?" in Chapter One of Book One?

4. Why does Billy the Kid visit Grey while she tends the dying Kope'mah?

5. What does Grey want her grandmother to tell her about Set?

6. What is the darkest power that Set has encountered? What would he have called this power if he had encountered it in another time and place?

7. Why is it that Grey never has to quest after visions?

8. How do the Native Americans let the summer go?

9. How does Set define art as he struggles with his reflection in the mirror?

10. Set is taught in school that art is resistance. But he doesn't believe it. How does Set define art?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Momaday's use of time. For example, many Native American customs cause the reader to think of the past, but that thought will be jarred by the mention of a modern actor, car, or TV program. What point do you think the author is trying to make by using time in such fluid ways?

Essay Topic 2

Explain which purpose Momaday had in mind as he wrote. Was his purpose to inform, to entertain, or to persuade? Why do you think so? Was he successful in achieving his purpose?

Essay Topic 3

Both Set and Grey express themselves through art: Set as a painter and Grey as a writer. Write an essay analyzing the way each expresses himself or herself as it changes through the story. As you catalog the changes, determine whether you think each will continue to practice their painting and writing in the future. If so, do you think they will share their work with others? What do you make of the fact that their great-great grandson is an artist, a maker of shields?

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