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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Yellow Kidney thinking about when he is killed?
(a) He is thinking about how to avoid being killed.
(b) He is thinking of his wife.
(c) He is thinking about how his life is like that of an old man.
(d) He is thinking of his unborn grandson.

2. How does Fast Horse identify the body?
(a) The clothing shows it was a Napikwan seizer.
(b) The hands have no fingers, so it must be Yellow Kidney.
(c) A note pinned to the body says it was the wife of a Pikunis brave.
(d) He looks at the face and also recognizes Yellow Kidney's rifle.

3. In Chapter 31, what does Fools Crow see the older woman in the doe skin doing?
(a) She is digging turnips with her digging stick and putting them in a sack.
(b) She is cooking food.
(c) She is singing as she paints a design on a yellow skin.
(d) She is singing with a bag of turnips from her garden.

4. How does the finding of Yellow Kidney further develop the theme of loss and change?
(a) The finding of Yellow Kidney is not a good example of loss and change.
(b) Yellow Kidney's fingers represent loss, while his death represents change.
(c) The discovery that Yellow Kidney is dead (loss) will mean the Lone Eaters will have to adjust to life without him (change).
(d) Although Fast Horse no longer follows the ways of the Pikuni (loss), honor is rekindled as he admits his responsiblity (positive change).

5. Which statement is true about Bull Shield's scalp in Chapter 28?
(a) Bull Shield's scalp represents desisive action.
(b) Bull Shield's scalp represents a bygone era.
(c) Bull Shields scalp has become shrunken and trivial.
(d) Bull Shield's scalp is powerful medicine.

6. Where does Kills-close-to-the-lake go when she slips out of her mother's dinner gathering?
(a) She goes to visit Heavy Shield Woman.
(b) She goes to the lake to fish.
(c) She goes to Running Fisher's lodge.
(d) She follows Fools Crow to find Fast Horse.

7. Why is Heavy Shield Woman's concerned about Running Fisher?
(a) Running Fisher has been shot.
(b) Running Fisher is going with Fools Crow to find Fast Horse.
(c) Running Fisher has moved out of the lodge and she does not know why.
(d) She knows about Running Fisher and Kills-close-to-the-lake.

8. In Chapter 19, what does Heavy Shield Woman do for her guests?
(a) She prepares a meal for them.
(b) She tells them stories.
(c) She gives each a gift.
(d) She prepares a sleeping area for them.

9. What are "whiskey runners"?
(a) Bands of Napikwan who transport illegal whiskey.
(b) A cloth that covers the middle of a table on which whiskey and other alchoholic bottles were lined up for display or sale.
(c) Like pony express riders for the mail, these riders transported whiskey across the country quickly.
(d) A type of sled runner made from a curved portion of a whiskey barrel.

10. Who visits the Lone Eaters' camp in Chapters 25-26?
(a) A delegate of the Napikwan seizers.
(b) Yellow Kidney.
(c) Pretty-on-top and a Napikwan healer.
(d) Owl Child and Fast Horse.

11. How should Fools Crow dress for this trip, according to Nitsokan?
(a) He should dress like a warior.
(b) He should dress like a beggar.
(c) He should dress for winter.
(d) He should dress in his ceremonial robes.

12. Which of Boss Ribs' children die of the white scab disease?
(a) His son, Running Fisher.
(b) His six-year-old daughter.
(c) Red Paint.
(d) His oldest son.

13. What does Fast Horse find there?
(a) A dead man lying on the floor.
(b) A sliver of white stone.
(c) A woman painting on a yellow skin.
(d) The remnants of a meal.

14. How far behind Fast Horse is Fools Crow?
(a) Three hours.
(b) Three days.
(c) Three moons.
(d) Three weeks.

15. Which would best describe the losses suffered by the Lone Eater camp from the white scab disease?
(a) After thirteen days, the losses are heavy, friends and family have died, and new cases are breaking out.
(b) After thirteen days, the losses are suprisingly light, with only a few deaths.
(c) The losses were heavy at first, but the arrival of the vaccine on the thirteenth day will prevent any more outbreaks.
(d) The Lone Eaters moved north thirteen days ahead of the plague of the white scab disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event does Fools Crow remember in Chapter 28 that did make him feel he had power?

2. What problem does Fast Horse voice to Owl Child?

3. Which of the Napikwan demands do the Pikuni promise to cooperate with?

4. What punishment does Rides-at-the-door decide to impose on Kills-close-to-the-lake?

5. What happens to Fast Horse when the woman opens the door?

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