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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. About what issue does Schneider tease Andrews?
(a) Andrews's lack of hunting experience.
(b) Andrews's young age.
(c) Andrews's soft hands.
(d) Andrews's relationship with Francine.

2. What new habit of Schneider's alarms Andrews?
(a) Schneider whispers sweet nothings to no one in the night.
(b) Schneider no longer speaks at all.
(c) Schneider no longer drinks water.
(d) Schneider practices shooting nearly every minute of the day.

3. What object does Miller NOT use to get a fire started the morning the men awake to snow covering the land around them?
(a) Dry branches.
(b) Wagon wheels.
(c) Paper.
(d) A tinderbox.

4. Miller reports that during his ride, he had seen snow up to how many feet deep?
(a) 12.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 24.

5. By dark, how many "fair-sized trees" have the two men chopping firewood felled?
(a) Half a dozen.
(b) Two dozen.
(c) A dozen.
(d) Three dozen.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Once the men get a fire started, who thrusts "his boots close to the fire, and almost into it" (186)?

3. What is NOT a material used by someone in the hunting party when he turns gunpowder into bullets?

4. How many steps toward the men does the leader of the herd take before he falls to the ground?

5. Miller tells Schneider that there is what between their current location and Denver?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the author's purpose for including each hunting party member's reaction to the coming winter?

3. How does Miller's explanation of his shooting mistake jibe with Andrews's own feelings about fate and consciousness?

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

5. What are Miller's first words after the accident with the wagon in the river and what do they indicate about his character?

6. What event forces Miller to stop killing buffalo once he has reduced the herd by at least two-thirds?

7. How does Schneider's death affect Andrews?

8. What is demonstrated about Miller's character when he voices the desire to bring back a huge load of hides to show the hunters in Butcher's Crossing?

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

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

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