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

2. Against which natural feature does Charley build the party's fire once they have set up camp in the valley?
(a) A cave.
(b) A plateau.
(c) A boulder.
(d) A forest.

3. Once the hunting party makes it down into the valley, next to what natural feature do they set up camp?
(a) A river.
(b) A spring.
(c) A waterfall.
(d) A lake.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What new habit of Schneider's alarms Andrews?

2. What do the men prepare for their first meal in many days?

3. Miller comes back from his ride to report that he had been unable to get within what distance from the pass?

4. Who momentarily decides to try to get back to Butcher's Crossing even though the party is snowed in?

5. Miller tells Schneider that Schneider does not have what kind of bone in his body?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Williams depict Andrews's change in perspective in relation to the grisly task of skinning buffalo?

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

5. After reading about Schneider's death, what instances of foreshadowing are now visible to the reader?

6. How does Schneider's death occur?

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

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

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

10. How do the men on the hunting expedition prepare their beds on the night before the buffalo hunt?

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