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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 Worcester Meat feel as his life ends?
2. Why does Grey think she is beautiful?
3. Which direction did the Kiowa travel?
4. What did Koi-ehm-toya's great-great grandson become?
5. Where does Worcester Meat go after he has been sick for sixteen days?
Short Essay Questions
1. What characteristic does Grey say is shared by her mother and her sister and her niece?
2. Who is the boy that Set sees and hears in the garden of his old house?
3. What does Set mean when he tells Lela that the bear stands against him, and that he is the bear?
4. Grey closes one calendar and opens another in Chapter Eleven of Book Two. What do these different calendars represent?
5. What does Grey see of Set beyond his physical appearance?
6. Why did the native people move south into the great plains?
7. What is unusual about the death of Worcester Meat?
8. How does Grey know that Set will act in the proper way?
9. How does Set's art change as his personality begins to disintegrate?
10. Why is it important to Dr. Terriman and Lola Bourne that Set dances?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Momaday is a poet as well as a novelist, and many of the passages in this story are poetic. What makes poetry? Select three or four passages that you believe show characteristics of poetry and tell why you think so in each case.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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