Q 01/05

In which state does Rainy Mountain, the Kiowa landmark of N. Scott Momaday's title, stand?

A) Montana

B) Oklahoma

C) Wyoming

D) Colorado

Answer · why

B) Oklahoma

Oklahoma holds the rounded knoll, which stands apart from the main range in Kiowa County. The creek below it was a favoured winter camp because the gr...

Q 02/05

What was the name of N. Scott Momaday's Kiowa grandmother, who lies buried at Rainy Mountain?

A) Aho

B) Ko-sahn

C) Kau-au-ointy

D) Natachee

Answer · why

A) Aho

Aho was born in 1880, as the Kiowa golden age was ending, and Momaday made his long journey to her grave in the year she died.

Q 03/05

In a legend in The Way to Rainy Mountain, a tree stump rises into the sky to become which landmark?

A) Chimney Rock

B) Shiprock

C) Devils Tower

D) Half Dome

Answer · why

C) Devils Tower

Devils Tower stood on the Kiowa road south, and the legend made sense of a sight that strange. In 1906 it became the first national monument in the Un...

Q 04/05

In The Way to Rainy Mountain, the boy who chases his seven sisters has turned into which animal?

A) A wolf

B) A panther

C) A buffalo

D) A bear

Answer · why

D) A bear

A bear is what the brother becomes, and its claws are said to have scored the sides of the great rock where the girls took refuge. Momaday later title...

Q 05/05

Through what do the Kiowa enter the world in the origin story of The Way to Rainy Mountain?

A) A hollow log

B) A mountain cave

C) A frozen lake

D) A prairie spring

Answer · why

A) A hollow log

A hollow log is the doorway into the world, and the tribe's old name for itself comes from a word meaning coming out.