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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 instruction does Miller give Andrews about the leader of the buffalo herd?
(a) He says that one should never kill the leader of the herd.
(b) He says that the leader of the herd must be killed only after the whole herd is dead.
(c) He says that one should locate and kill the leader of the herd first.
(d) He says that the leader of the buffalo herd is the most dangerous.

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

3. Miller tells Andrews that a buffalo never dies from what cause?
(a) Old age.
(b) Starvation.
(c) Running off a cliff.
(d) A single gunshot wound.

4. How many steps toward the men does the leader of the herd take before he falls to the ground?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

5. Miller states that it is "likely as not" (184) that Schneider has done what in the night?
(a) Taken off for home.
(b) Frozen to death.
(c) Stolen the buffalo hides.
(d) Drunk the last of the water.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what purpose do the members of the hunting party add a particular liquid to the boiling buffalo hides?

2. Miller tells Schneider that if they had to, they could stay in the valley for what amount of time shooting buffalo?

3. Against which natural feature does Charley build the party's fire once they have set up camp in the valley?

4. What is Miller's reply when Andrews asks him how long the hunting party will be snowed in?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Schneider's death occur?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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