Review for test 2/3 The Way to Rainy Mountain

- What reasons does Momaday return to Rainy Mountain?
- Why is the legend of Devils Tower important to the Kiowas?
- Why do you think Momaday prefers to think of his grandmother as a child?
- Compared with the other Sun Dances, what was different about the last dance?
- What happened after the soldiers dispersed the Kiowas at the Sun Dance on July 20, 1890?
- Where does the setting of this excerpt take place?
- What distinguishes the setting of Rainy Mountain?
- Momaday notes what about Rainy Mountain?
- The setting of Rainy Mountain was important to the Kiowas because ---
- Review the main ideas in "The Way to Rainy Mountain"
- Why did the writer make a piglrimage from Yellowstone, in Montana to his grandmother's grave at Rainy Mountain, in Oklahoma?
- Be able to trace the Kiowas' journey, and explain the purpose of Momaday's journey.  Support with details from the selection
- Be very familiar with vocabulary terms...