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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. How does Grey react to the news that the bear is coming?

2. What was the name of the first painting Lola Bourne bought from Set?

3. Who raped Grey?

4. Why did Kope'mah feel little respect for her son Worcester?

5. Who does Grey want to imitate as a rider?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Set repeatedly ask Bent to be his father?

2. How can you tell that Dog belongs to Grey?

3. What does Koi-ehm-toya see as her responsibility to the children who wander into the woods?

4. At the Mottledmares', Set has a dream that he is deprived of a power that seems to him important. What does he dream he cannot do?

5. What is the purpose that Grey must serve in this chapter, although she is weary and hurt? What would she rather do?

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

7. What comes to nothing in Chapter Twenty of Book One? Why does everything feel pointless to Set as he considers his pilgrimage home?

8. What passion did Grey acquire from Perfecto Atole?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the differences in communication styles between Native Americans as viewed in this story and members of the mainstream culture. Find examples in the story to demonstrate cultural differences in communication.

Essay Topic 2

How does the girl Grey view the power of her sexuality? How does the woman Grey change? In your essay, analyze Grey's changing attitude toward sex.

Essay Topic 3

The horse Dog has significance in this story. Why is he important? What do we learn about Grey from Dog's response to her and from her dealings with him?

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