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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 190 - 230).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cowney share with Essie in Chapter Seventeen about his father?
(a) How much he hated being in the army.
(b) What he used to do for a living.
(c) The strange and disturbing circumstances of his death.
(d) The age he was when he died.

2. Where does Cowney go with Essie in Chapter Seventeen?
(a) To the church.
(b) To the waterfall.
(c) To the general store.
(d) To the movies.

3. What does Essie tell Cowney she has done that betrays him in Chapter Nineteen?
(a) Told the authorities he had stolen money
(b) Told the authorities he had a bone and was trying to sell bear bladders to some of the guests at the inn.
(c) Told the authorities he had a gun.
(d) Told the authorities he had assaulted her.

4. Why is the colonel angry with Cowney when he comes back from looking for the bone in Chapter Twenty?
(a) The bone is not where Cowney told him it was.
(b) There is more than one bone.
(c) The bone is sticky and poisonous.
(d) The bone is definitely a human bone.

5. What does Cowney see a bear do for the first time in his life in Chapter Sixteen?
(a) Walk on hind legs.
(b) Sing.
(c) Wallow in mud.
(d) Kill a pig.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Essie tell the authorities about Cowney, implicating him in the crime?

2. Why was Jonathan Craig going to visit Lishie, from what he tells Cowney in Chapter Twenty-One?

3. What does Cowney learn that Essie loves to do in Chapter Twelve?

4. What rumors has Cowney heard about the inn?

5. In Chapter Twelve, what does Essie suggest she and Cowney do together?

(see the answer key)

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