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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 type of food does Schneider muse about missing?
(a) Greens.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Beans.
(d) Chocolate.

2. Miller tells Schneider that Schneider does not have what kind of bone in his body?
(a) Smug.
(b) Brave.
(c) Cheerful.
(d) Smart.

3. What is NOT a material used by someone in the hunting party when he turns gunpowder into bullets?
(a) A block of wood.
(b) A ladle.
(c) A spoon.
(d) Newspaper.

4. Who sharpens all of the knives brought along by the hunting party?
(a) Schneider.
(b) Andrews.
(c) Charley.
(d) Miller.

5. Miller says that buffalo are always either killed by a man or what?
(a) Impaled by a rival.
(b) Killed by a cougar.
(c) Chased into Colorado territory.
(d) Dragged down by a wolf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What liquid do the members of the hunting party add to the boiling buffalo hides?

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

3. When Andrews awakes on the morning of the hunt's first day, who is already up and active?

4. What does Miller say will happen if the person who wants to leave tries to make it back to Butcher's Crossing in the snow?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss the irony present in the depiction of Schneider's death.

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

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

5. Why must the men construct a wooden and canvas tent once they set up for the hunt?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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