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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. How does Charley react to the news that the hunting party is likely snowed in for the winter?
(a) He is happy.
(b) He goes to look for more firewood.
(c) He panics.
(d) He runs away.

2. Miller tells Schneider that one time he had been snowed in all by himself in what state?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Minnesota.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Wyoming.

3. Who is in charge of poisoning the wolves in the valley?
(a) Schneider.
(b) Miller.
(c) Andrews.
(d) Charley.

4. Who is designated as the person who will follow along behind the hunting party and collect the hides?
(a) Charley.
(b) Andrews.
(c) Miller.
(d) Schneider.

5. What is NOT an element of the hunting party's breakfast on the first morning of the hunt?
(a) Fried mush.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Side meat.
(d) Oatmeal.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long does Charley dig in the snow to find his lost object?

2. For how many days have the members of the hunting party gone without food by the time Miller rides up to look at the snow?

3. What type of food does Schneider muse about missing?

4. After how many days of sleeping in a snow mound does Andrews wake to find snow everywhere upon the land?

5. Miller tells Andrews that buffalo "always face" (127) in what direction?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Andrews's growing comfort with the grisly nature of the buffalo skinning process?

2. How is Miller's monomaniacal nature demonstrated in his response to Schneider's comment that they do not have to hunt any more buffalo?

3. How does Andrews's view of Miller change during the last hour of the buffalo hunt?

4. How does Schneider feel about the coming of winter and why?

5. What does the loss of the buffalo hides in the river symbolize?

6. Describe and analyze the intense clash between Miller and Schneider in Part Two, Chapter VI.

7. What is the result of Miller's decision to keep hunting after Schneider protests the extension of the hunt?

8. How does Miller feel about the coming winter and why?

9. How does Charley feel about the coming of winter and why?

10. What is the irony inherent in Miller's response to Schneider's request that Miller begin the hunt slowly?

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