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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occasionally causes the women to go off course?
(a) Fatigue.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Memory loss.
(d) Confusion.

2. How do the women know when rabbits live nearby?
(a) There are willows.
(b) There are wolves lurking nearby.
(c) There are prints in the snow.
(d) There are droppings on the ground.

3. What are the women watching for along the river?
(a) A narrow stream.
(b) A rock formation.
(c) A tall tree.
(d) A lagoon.

4. What does not arrive in the morning because of the time of year?
(a) Friends.
(b) Birds.
(c) Light.
(d) Game animals.

5. Why had the group not shared food with the two women?
(a) It would take food from the hunters.
(b) It would dishonor the women.
(c) It would be a disgrace to them.
(d) It would be a waste to feed dying ones.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chi'idzigyaak think of the long sleep of death?

2. What do the women make with babiche?

3. What causes frost inside the caribou skins?

4. How do the boys in the group prove their manhood?

5. What does Sa' cook for breakfast on the fifth morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the two old women decide that they cannot remain in the camp where they have been abandoned?

2. What painful memories does Chi'idzigyaak recall?

3. What unusual character flaw do the two old women possess?

4. What has hardship taught the two women and failed to teach the two women about each other?

5. How does Chi'idzigyaak make a rabbit snare?

6. Why was Sa' finally banished from her group as a young woman?

7. How does the group react to the chief's announcement that the two old women would be left behind?

8. How do the two old women make snowshoes?

9. What do the younger men do for the two old women each time they move to a new campsite?

10. Why are the hunters always fed first?

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