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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 animal was used to make Russel's underparka?
(a) Rabbit.
(b) Seal.
(c) Snake.
(d) Squirrel.

2. What is Russel's ethnicity?
(a) Inuit.
(b) Eskimo.
(c) Native American.
(d) Finnish.

3. Russel asks the old man if it is possible to get ____ back.
(a) Spirits.
(b) Women.
(c) Songs.
(d) Missionaries.

4. What is a ptarmigan?
(a) Prayer book.
(b) Missionary.
(c) Shoe.
(d) Bird.

5. What item did Russel own and used in place of dogs?
(a) Snowmachine.
(b) Power shovel.
(c) Toboggan.
(d) Snowshoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The dogs also had the blood of ancestors from which location?

2. What type of water creature is often part of the family meal?

3. What was the best part of the animal to eat?

4. What does Russel take to the elder?

5. Oogruk says that before there was/were ______, animals "felt different about dying."

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Oogruk? What is unusual about the man?

2. Oogruk tells Russel about missing his wife, who ran off. What does Oogruk say? What is Russel's reaction?

3. Russel begins to learn about songs. How does Oogruk explain finding one's own song?

4. What advice does Russel's father give about Oogruk?

5. What is the warning Russel receives from his father about cooking meat?

6. What problem does Russel experience?

7. What is a shaman?

8. What is Russel's impression of Oogruk's house?

9. What does Russel's father try to explain to the 14-year-old boy?

10. Who are the Outsiders? Why are they different from the Eskimos?

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