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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does White Man's Dog want to take for his wife?
(a) Heavy Shield Woman.
(b) Feather Woman.
(c) Red Paint.
(d) Kills-close-to-the-lake.

2. Why does Yellow Kidney include White Man's Dog in the raiding party heading for the Crow camp?
(a) So that he will have someone to blame if all does not go well.
(b) Because White Man's Dog and Fast Horse are close friends.
(c) Out of respect for White Man's Dog's father.
(d) Because he wants to teach White Man's Dog to toughen up.

3. Which of the Pikunis go into the heart of the Crow camp?
(a) Yellow Kidney, Eagle Ribs and Fast Horse.
(b) White Man's Dog, Fast Horse and Eagle Ribs.
(c) White Man's Dog, Eagle Ribs and Yellow Kidney.
(d) Yellow Kidney, White Man's Dog and Fast Horse.

4. What does White Man's Dog want that he feels will increase his value as a prospective husband?
(a) A horse.
(b) A new name.
(c) A beaded vest.
(d) A "many-shots-gun."

5. Why does White Man's Dog blame himself for Yellow Kidney's disfigurement?
(a) Because he should have returned and looked for Yellow Kidney.
(b) Because if he had told his dream, they would have turned back.
(c) Because he did not go into the camp with Yellow Kidney.
(d) Because only he could have dreamed where Yellow Kidney was being held.

6. Why does the brave, White Man's Dog, fear that no woman will find him attractive as a husband?
(a) He does not have any wealth to offer.
(b) He has never had a vision.
(c) He has a poor self-image.
(d) He has a scar on his face.

7. Eagle's Rib's dream of the horse of death with the reins dragging and White Man's Dog's dream of the white-faced girl in the death lodge are both fulfilled by what plot development?
(a) The return of Yellow Kidney to the Lone Eaters.
(b) The purifying ceremony of Mik-api.
(c) The banishment of Fast Horse from the Lone Eaters.
(d) The arival of the young Pikunis men with the Napikwans horses.

8. Whose idea is it to stage a horse raid on the Crows?
(a) White Man's Dog.
(b) Mik-api.
(c) White Man's Dog's father.
(d) Fast Horse.

9. In Chapter 9, who said, "That's the way it is now. All the breathing things are gone--except for us. But hurry, brother, for I feel my strength slipping away."
(a) Fast Horse, just before he leaves with all his belongings.
(b) Yellow Kidney to White Man's Dog.
(c) The wolverine in White Man's Dog's dream.
(d) The wolverine in Kills-close-to-the-lake's dream.

10. What reward will the Raven bestow on White Man's Dog if he releases the wolverine?
(a) Raven will return Yellow Kidney to the tribe.
(b) Raven will teach White Man's Dog alone to use the wolverine's magic power.
(c) Raven will give White Man's Dog a power dream.
(d) Raven will make White Man's Dog brave and strong.

11. What does White Man's Dog do for Yellow Kidney's lodge in his absence?
(a) He hunts and leaves food at Yellow Kidney's lodge.
(b) He fixes the roof of Yellow Kidney's lodge.
(c) He sits in the place of Yellow Kidney at meal time.
(d) He brings firewood to Yellow Kidney's lodge.

12. In Chapter 13, who arrives at the Lone Eaters' camp?
(a) The seizers, wearing war paint.
(b) Owl Child and Fast Horse.
(c) The seizers, wearing blue uniforms.
(d) Members of Bull Shield's camp, wearing blue uniforms.

13. Who would Red Paint and White Man's Dog like to give the honor of naming the baby to?
(a) Yellow Kidney.
(b) Crows Foot.
(c) Rides-at-the-door.
(d) Fox Eyes.

14. Who or what is the Pikunis?
(a) A name for the white man.
(b) A band of the Blackfeet tribe.
(c) A band of renegades who hate the white man.
(d) The sweat lodge.

15. What happens in Fast Horse's power dream?
(a) Fast Horse gives Cold Maker a drink from a frozen stream and Cold Maker promises good fortune for the raiding party.
(b) Cold Maker tells Fast Horse to find a frozen stream and remove a large rock that blocks it or the whole raiding party will be punished.
(c) Cold Maker shows Fast Horse a white girl in a tipi and tells him to find her and rescue her.
(d) Cold Maker warns of a great freeze that will overtake the land, so the raiding party must hurry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object ties a wolverine dream of White Dog's and a wolverine dream of Kills-close-to-the-Lake's with reality?

2. How does the war party react to the phenomenon that occurs with the sun on the fourth day?

3. What does Raven want Fools Crow to do about the evil Napikwan hunter, and why?

4. What does Bull Shield sing as he emerges from his tipi?

5. How many nights does White Man's Dog have his dream?

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