The Way To Rainy Mountain

Where is Rainy Mountain?

• Oklahoma

• Nebraska

• Wyoming

• Montana

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Why did the author decide to go to Rainy Mountain?

• To write a magazine article about it

• To ask his grandmother questions about her childhood years

• He was a soldier at Ft Sill and was just driving around one day and saw it

• To visit his grandmother's grave

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This story is a "memoir". What is a memoir?

• A story taken from a dream

• A research paper built from public information sources

• An historical account or biography written from personal knowledge

• A fantasy that does not tell about anything in our current reality

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The author took this trip for the deeper personal reason of

• Discovering who his father was

• Finding out what killed his grandmother

• Documenting a migration

• Searching for his own identity and increasing his awareness of the past

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What was it about Yellowstone that caused the Kiowa to worship the sun?

• The sun always highlighted the Old Faithful Geyser.

• Sunshine was cherished because the high mountains blocked it.

• The area experienced longer than usual sunshine compared to other areas.

• A prehistoric tribe had taught the Kiowa sun worship.

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According to Kiowa legend, the seven sisters being chased by their brother became

• Seven hills in South Dakota

• The seven stars of the Big Dipper

• The seven tall pine trees at the entrance to Yellowstone

• Seven canyons that cut through the Staked Plains

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According to Kiowa legend, how was Devil's Tower formed?

• It was the stump of a great tree used by seven sisters to escape their brother, who'd turned into a bear and clawed it.

• A large giant had stepped in mud on the other side of the world, and it pushed out the rock on the other side of the world.

• An eagle had tried to pull a snake out of the ground. The snake wrapped its tail around the rock and it was pulled out of the ground.

• The village elders pulled at the roots of the giant tree in the midst of their camp, but were not able to remove it.

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What major Kiowan event did the author's grandmother attend?

• The final Kiowa Sun Dance

• The departure of the tribe from Yellowstone

• The first meeting between the Kiowa and the Crow tribes

• The arrival of the Kiowa at Devil's Tower

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What did the Kiowas get from the Crows?

• A map highlighting a hidden trail to the top of Devil's Tower

• Knowledge of how geysers could be used for washing

• The ability to grow cotton

• The culture and religion of the Plains

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What word refers to things that do not happen in daylight?

• enmity

• opaque

• nocturnal

• tenuous

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