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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 did the townspeople react to Billy's escape?

2. According to the Ethnographic Dictionary of Navajo language, why are astrological pursuits often associated with witchcraft?

3. What is a hogleg?

4. Why was the Piegan camp troubled when the unknown boy came to their camp, then disappeared?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Grey feel about her appearance?

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

3. Why doesn't Paulita Maxwell weep?

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

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

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

7. What does Set think is the most wonderful of God's creations?

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

9. What do masks represent to Grey as she makes them?

10. Why does Murphy Dicks feel ashamed when he talks to Grey?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider this story from another character's point of view. Briefly write a narrative including the main facts in this story from the point of view of Jason, Dr. Merriman, or Lola Bourne.

Essay Topic 2

Billy the Kid has such fascination for the young Grey that she swoons and can't eat when she reads about him. What is it that intrigues Grey about Billy the Kid? What do you learn about her from the fantasies she enacts with him? Do these fantasies change as the story progresses? Write an essay analyzing the significance of Billy the Kid to Grey and to the story as a whole.

Essay Topic 3

Masks are an important theme in this story. Where/how are masks seen in this book? Are masks symbolic in this story? What do they represent? Use quotations and examples from the story to support your idea about masks in this book.

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