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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brennan tell his mother is the only way to get the kids to sleep?
(a) Drug their hot chocolate.
(b) Make them run five miles with their packs.
(c) Hit them over the head.
(d) Drive a wooden stake through their hearts.

2. Where is a gun pressed against Coyote Runs?
(a) His head.
(b) His chest.
(c) His back.
(d) His stomach.

3. What ethnicity are the ranchers the party raided?
(a) Apache.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Mexican.
(d) Navajo.

4. How did the Indians carry water for their horses?
(a) Cacti branches.
(b) Leather water skins.
(c) Tin canteens.
(d) Clay pots.

5. What is Coyote Runs doing with the warriors in question #9?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Following them.
(c) Cooking for them.
(d) Reporting them to the authorities.

6. With whom does Coyote Runs catch up?
(a) The soldiers.
(b) The Ranchers.
(c) Sancta.
(d) Magpie.

7. How does the raiding party proceed home?
(a) On fresh horses.
(b) On what they stole.
(c) In the opposite direction of where they want to go.
(d) Slowly, sneaking through the hills.

8. What did Brennan think the cliffs were like?
(a) Art.
(b) A torture chamber.
(c) Evidence of angry nature.
(d) A cemetary.

9. What did the Mexicans call the desert near where Coyote Runs live?
(a) The Journey of Death.
(b) Death Sands.
(c) White Death.
(d) White Sands.

10. What will Coyote Runs be when he and the warriors return home?
(a) A warrior.
(b) A man.
(c) A chief.
(d) The last step before a man.

11. What does Bill say about the canyons in which they are located?
(a) Rumor says they were the last stronghold of the Apaches.
(b) The Apaches never lived there.
(c) An entire regiment of soldiers were killed there.
(d) The Spanish left treasure there.

12. What does Coyote Runs call the place he has gone to time after time to pray?
(a) The medicine place.
(b) Church.
(c) The vision circle.
(d) Great Spirit Realm.

13. What makes Coyote Runs slow as he goes into the canyon?
(a) There are large boulders he has to climb.
(b) His injury.
(c) It is flooded.
(d) There is no path.

14. Why does Coyote Runs believe he can escape bullets?
(a) He has danced the ghost dance.
(b) He is carrying a lucky knife.
(c) A rancher fires at him but missed.
(d) He is too young to die.

15. What does Brennan think he hears in the dark?
(a) A mountain lion.
(b) A horse neighing.
(c) Gunshots.
(d) A coyote howling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the white school Coyote Runs had to attend?

2. Why does Brennan work?

3. What kind of horse does Coyote Runs ride on the way home?

4. What friend of Coyote Runs attended school with him?

5. What does Coyote Runs hope to do when he gets home?

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