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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 does Shruh Zhuu tell Chi'idzigyaak that Ozhii Nelii is feeling?
(a) Shame.
(b) Distrust.
(c) Anger.
(d) Fear.

2. What kind of caches do the women devise?
(a) Underground.
(b) On the ground.
(c) Under water.
(d) Standing.

3. What are the women armed with as Daagoo approaches?
(a) Knives.
(b) Spears.
(c) Clubs.
(d) Bows and arrows.

4. What has healed the bitter memories of the two old women?
(a) Understanding and peace.
(b) Success and comfort.
(c) Forgiveness and distance.
(d) Loneliness and time.

5. What collection do the women share with The People when they learn of the sorry condition of the band?
(a) Rabbit fur garments.
(b) Beaver fur garments.
(c) Caribou hide rope.
(d) Moose hide sleds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chi'idzigyaak refuse most visitors?

2. Why do The People not visit the old women immediately?

3. What do the first visitors bring each time they come to see the old women?

4. How do the women protect themselves at night?

5. What larger animal do the women remember how to trap?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the women afraid that other people might come to their fish camp?

2. How can the hunters tell that the old women are in better shape than The People as the winter ends?

3. What game does the bull moose play with Sa'?

4. What surprises Daagoo during his first conversation with the two women?

5. Why does Daagoo smile with admiration when he sees the two women?

6. What methods do the women use to protect themselves from mosquitoes?

7. Why would it be difficult to see from a distance that Sa' was an old woman?

8. What had hardship taught the women and The People that they had not known before?

9. Why had Daagoo been surprised that no one had ever silenced the two old women when they lived together?

10. Why does Daagoo believe the birch bark was stripped from the trees by the two women?

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