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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Cowney tell the authorities the bone is?
(a) In room 447.
(b) At Lishie's house.
(c) At Bud's house.
(d) In his own room.

2. What does Cowney leave at the inn in Chapter Twenty-One that is valuable to him?
(a) His wallet.
(b) The car.
(c) His mother's ring.
(d) His diary.

3. What does Essie tell Cowney in Chapter Sixteen that softens his hurt at her relationship with another man?
(a) She is moving away soon.
(b) He is her best friend.
(c) She is going to bake him a birthday cake.
(d) She is becoming a nun.

4. Who does Cowney call in Chapter Twenty?
(a) Jonathan Craig.
(b) Lishie.
(c) Bud.
(d) Tsa Tsi.

5. Which friend of Essie's goes with her, Cowney and Peter to canoe?
(a) Henrietta.
(b) Eleanor.
(c) Ellen.
(d) Carol.

6. In Chapter Sixteen, what book is in Lishie's room?
(a) Her copy of Ulysses.
(b) Her copy of The Raven.
(c) Her Bible.
(d) Her copy of the Indian stories from the Cherokee.

7. What does Jonathan Craig tell Cowney some white soldiers were afraid the Indian soldiers might do?
(a) Rebel and kill them.
(b) Steal from them.
(c) Do better in the army than they themselves would, making them look bad.
(d) Desert the army.

8. Who does Cowney attempt to speak to, but never actually does, in Chapter Fifteen?
(a) Andrea.
(b) Japanese men who are staying at the inn.
(c) Peter Franks.
(d) Bud.

9. Who comes to question Cowney in Chapter Nineteen?
(a) The Colonel.
(b) Essie.
(c) Sol.
(d) Robert James.

10. Who comes to Lishie's house after she dies that Cowney has never met before?
(a) His Aunt Reyna.
(b) Sol.
(c) Jon Craig.
(d) Lee.

11. What does Cowney want to use to pay for a headstone for Lishie?
(a) His own father's pension.
(b) Money from the bear gallbladders.
(c) Money from Lishie's savings.
(d) His money from the summer.

12. Who tells Cowney that Lishie has passed away?
(a) Myrtle.
(b) Essie.
(c) Bud.
(d) Cowney's father.

13. What does Cowney ask the Colonel about the bone?
(a) If it is really from a bear.
(b) If it is sanitary.
(c) If it is considered stolen property.
(d) If they can return it to him when they are done with it.

14. What does Jonathan Craig tell Cowney that Cowney has to choose between?
(a) Religion and freedom.
(b) Truth and peace.
(c) Peace and War.
(d) Right and wrong.

15. Why does Cowney say he cannot talk to Bud after Lishie's funeral?
(a) He does not ever want to talk to Bud again.
(b) He is too upset.
(c) He has turned Bud into the police.
(d) He has to get Essie back to Asheville.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bud think Cowney was in a fight in Chapter Twenty-One?

2. What does Cowney see a bear do for the first time in his life in Chapter Sixteen?

3. What song that Lishie sings in Chapter Thirteen does Cowney love?

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

5. Who leads the church service at Lishie's church?

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