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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 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 hunting with Bud.
(d) About capturing Edgar.

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

3. Why does a siren start in Chapter Nineteen?
(a) There has been a theft.
(b) A dog has bitten someone.
(c) A soldier has been shot.
(d) A diplomat's daughter is missing.

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

5. What does Cowney ask the colonel if he can do in Chapter Twenty that the colonel reluctantly agrees to?
(a) Make a phone call.
(b) Talk to Lee.
(c) Buy a sandwich.
(d) Talk to Essie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peter show Cowney from his personal life in Chapter Fifteen?

2. Which friend of Essie's goes with her, Cowney and Peter to canoe?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the military men treat Cowney as they are questioning him in Part IV?

2. What happens after Cowney tells the military men where to find the bone?

3. What do Lishie and Cowney encounter on the way to church that startles them both?

4. What excuse does Cowney give to Bud when Bud tells Cowney they need to talk after Lishie's funeral?

5. What does Jon Craig tell Cowney about Essie?

6. How does Essie seem to feel about having told the authorities what she told them about Cowney?

7. How does Lishie get Cowney to go to church with her in the start of Part III?

8. What does Cowney dream about during his sleep during church in Part III?

9. What does Cowney glimpse on Essie's note that she keeps re-reading that worries him?

10. What is some of the dirtiest work Cowney has to perform at the inn and how does he feel about it?

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