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

2. What did Coyote Runs' people call the white soldiers?
(a) Long guns.
(b) Yellow Scarfs.
(c) Bluebellies.
(d) Bluecoats.

3. What are two activities Brennan's mother became involved in that he managed to avoid?
(a) Tennis and church.
(b) Aerobics and Tennis.
(c) Gardening and piano.
(d) Aerobics and health foods.

4. What did the bottom of the canyon look like to Brennan?
(a) Soft, shifting sand.
(b) Hard granite.
(c) Sand dotted with sage brush.
(d) An old riverbed filled with boulders.

5. What does Coyote Runs hope to do when he gets home?
(a) Acquire a gun.
(b) Hear his mother say she is proud of him.
(c) Make the horse he is riding his own.
(d) Make a saddle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brennan recognize about the skull?

2. Why does Coyote Runs believe he can escape bullets?

3. What does Brennan hear after he picks up the skull?

4. Where did Brennan lose a man who was dating his mother when the man went running with him?

5. What does Brennan tell his mother is the only way to get the kids to sleep?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Coyote Runs' group encounter as they are heading to their destination, and how do they handle that encounter?

2. What happens to the group of warriors the day after the raid?

3. Where does the van in which Brennan is riding stop and then what do they do?

4. Why is Brennan annoyed while riding in the van? How does he feel about being there?

5. What kind of school and where is it that Coyote Runs attended and who attended with him?

6. Where does Brennan's mother tell him they are going and with whom?

7. What does Brennan hear and what does he do with the skull?

8. How does Brennan feel about the person driving the van and how does he feel about the kids in it by the time they arrive?

9. Why does Brennan work and for whom does he work?

10. What does Bill tell the children about and what is the name of the canyon near them that relates to his story?

(see the answer keys)

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