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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bud tell Cowney whites have been doing to Indians for hundreds of years?
(a) Exploiting them.
(b) Paying them.
(c) Lifting them up.
(d) Erasing them.

3. What does the Colonel tell Cowney the authorities need to see?
(a) His tools.
(b) His ribbon.
(c) The bone he found.
(d) His coveralls.

4. What is the woman in Jones's store looking to buy in Chapter Twenty-One?
(a) A ring.
(b) A basket.
(c) A bottle of wine.
(d) A deerskin dress.

5. Why does Jonathan Craig tell Cowney he has a cooler of food in his car?
(a) He had been planning to visit his daughter.
(b) He had been planning to go golfing.
(c) He had been planning to go fishing.
(d) He had been planning to go to the shelter to share food.

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

7. What does Peter tell Cowney that Essie definitely did tell the army?
(a) That Cowney was a terrible shot.
(b) That Cowney had just lost his grandmother.
(c) That Cowney had been trying to trade with the Japanese guests.
(d) That Cowney was a thief.

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

9. What is the church Lishie goes to constructed out of?
(a) Stucco.
(b) White cinderblock.
(c) Red brick.
(d) Clapboard.

10. What story does Cowney tell Essie in Chapter Fourteen that he exaggerates?
(a) About fighting with Lee.
(b) About seeing the bear with Lishie.
(c) About capturing Edgar.
(d) About hunting with Bud.

11. What job does Cowney have to do in Chapter Fifteen that requires him to wear a bandanna on his face?
(a) Bleaching out the teacups.
(b) Waxing the floors.
(c) Driving fence posts in.
(d) Clearing brush out in the smoke.

12. Who leads the church service at Lishie's church?
(a) Reverend Simon.
(b) Preacherman.
(c) Rob.
(d) Edgar.

13. What does Cowney do that is a violation of Essie's privacy in Chapter Fourteen?
(a) Reads her diary.
(b) Goes through her purse.
(c) Reads a note that a love interest wrote to her.
(d) Calls her mother to tell her she has been going out with men.

14. Why does Bud think Cowney was in a fight in Chapter Twenty-One?
(a) Because the cheerwine has made his mouth look red.
(b) He has bruises.
(c) He seems to have a broken finger.
(d) He has patch over one eye.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jonathan Craig tell Cowney he should ask about the circumstances of his father's death?

2. What is Cowney holding when the person finds him outside on the inn's property in Chapter Nineteen?

3. What does Jonathan Craig give to Cowney on the ride back to Cherokee in Chapter Twenty-One?

4. Who is the first to find and bring Cowney back to the inn in Chapter Nineteen?

5. What does Cowney feel he has been launched into when the Colonel starts questioning him in Chapter Nineteen?

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