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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Mary estimate it will take to get back to Draper's Meadow?
(a) Six months.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Over two months.
(d) A month and a half.

2. What does Mary tell the other captives while tied to the post?
(a) To be mean.
(b) To be angry.
(c) To be silent.
(d) To be strong and dignified.

3. Why is Colonel Patton shot during the Shawnee Indians' attack at Draper's Meadow?
(a) He fights back.
(b) He is elderly.
(c) He refuses to leave his home.
(d) He is sleeping.

4. Who buys Mary during the slave auction?
(a) Chief Wildcat.
(b) Another tribe.
(c) LaPlante.
(d) Goulart.

5. What do the Indians do with those who successfully complete the gauntlet?
(a) They make them run it again.
(b) They treat the wounds.
(c) They kill them.
(d) They reward them with a feast.

6. What does Mary use to mark trees when she goes to collect berries and nuts?
(a) Paint.
(b) A hatchet.
(c) Yarn.
(d) Blood.

7. What do Mary and Ghetel find at the bottom of a creek?
(a) A catfish.
(b) Clams
(c) A tuna.
(d) A trout.

8. What does one of the braves wave as the Indians arrive at the camp?
(a) A branch.
(b) A scalp.
(c) A pelt.
(d) A flag.

9. What condition is Mary Draper Ingles in when the Shawnee Indians attack?
(a) She is getting married.
(b) She had just given birth to her son.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is injured.

10. What do the Indians do before arriving at their camp?
(a) Bind the captives.
(b) Paint their faces.
(c) Hunt for food.
(d) Bathe in the river.

11. What do the captives withdraw from the spring water?
(a) Salt.
(b) Herbs.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Fish.

12. How does Bettie survive the gauntlet?
(a) She crawls.
(b) She repeats.
(c) She runs quickly.
(d) She fights.

13. What does the spring smell like that the Indians come to on the twelfth day?
(a) Rotten eggs.
(b) Flowers.
(c) The ocean.
(d) Fish.

14. What does Mary eat her first night away from camp?
(a) Bread.
(b) Berries.
(c) Nuts.
(d) Soup.

15. What nationality is Ghetel?
(a) English.
(b) French.
(c) Dutch.
(d) Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who runs the gauntlet first?

2. What is Mary Draper's relationship to Bettie Draper?

3. What do Mary and Ghetel find a little ways from the village?

4. What do the Shawnee Indians create with hot water and herbs?

5. Who cares for Mary's daughter?

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