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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What surprises Fast Horse about Owl Child's response to his concern?
2. What has happened to Red Paint's youngest brother, One Spot, in Chapter 23?
3. What is Red Paint worried about in Chapter 22?
4. What is the white scab disease?
5. How do the Pikuni leaders feel about meeting with the seizer chiefs?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens after killing the whiskey runners that shows that Fast Horse may be changing and becoming concerned for his people after all?
2. Why doesn't Fast Horse return to the Lone Eaters himself?
3. When the Pikunis chiefs meet for council, what do they decide to do about the white healer's warning and the seizers' demands?
4. Why is Fools Crow's mother angry with him as she fixes food for her guests?
5. How does the author introduce hope into the devastation that has forced the Lone Eaters to begin the journey toward the Sand Hills that gives this book its bitter-sweet ending?
6. What is Fools Crow thinking and feeling as he looks at the scalp of Bull Shied?
7. What happens to Yellow Kidney while he is taking shelter in the war lodge, and does he see it coming?
8. How does Fools Crow discover the new land in his dream during his seven-day journey?
9. What are the three demands the seizers make of the Pikunis when they meet with General Sully?
10. What do Owl Child and Fast Horse do at the ranch of the Napikwan?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Point of view can change whole story. Most of the conflict with the Napikwan in this novel were from the perspective of the Pikunis. Certainly, the demands of the seizers, which were ultimately rejected by the Piknunis, were seen through the eyes of the Pikunis.
Revisit the meeting from which we received the three main seizer demands: General Sully, who was trying to negotiate an agreement that would guarantee the safety of his people. Write a scene within the fort with General Sully and his advisors as they discussed the problems and dangers they were experiencing with the Blackfoot and developing their list of demands.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the use of imagery in Fools Crow. How did it enrich the reading experience? How did it help to paint a mental picture of the Pikunis culture? What techniques of imagery were most prevalent, or do you think the majority of the imagery used was descriptive without the use of such literary devises as metaphore, simile, personification, anthropomorphism, alliteration and irony?
Essay Topic 3
Explore the theme of relationships within the context of the novel, Fools Crow. How did the relationship between Fools Crow and Fast Horse develop and change? How did the relationship between Yellow Kidney and his family develop and change? How did the relationship between the Napikwan and the Pikunis develop and change?
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