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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following characteristics is revealed by the way Fast Horse handles and reacts to his dreams?
(a) That Fast Horse is stupid.
(b) That Fast Horse is wise.
(c) That Fast Horse is brave.
(d) That Fast Horse is selfish.

2. What happens in Fast Horse's power dream?
(a) Cold Maker warns of a great freeze that will overtake the land, so the raiding party must hurry.
(b) Fast Horse gives Cold Maker a drink from a frozen stream and Cold Maker promises good fortune for the raiding party.
(c) Cold Maker tells Fast Horse to find a frozen stream and remove a large rock that blocks it or the whole raiding party will be punished.
(d) Cold Maker shows Fast Horse a white girl in a tipi and tells him to find her and rescue her.

3. What is credited as the power that has helped the injured man to recover?
(a) The sweat lodge ceremony.
(b) The sun god.
(c) The Beaver Medicine.
(d) The poultice of herbs and powders.

4. What does Rides-at-the-door do while the Napikwan speak?
(a) Rides-at-the-door sings his power song softly.
(b) Rides-at-the-door does not let on that he understands the Napikwan language.
(c) Rides-at-the-door does not listen.
(d) Rides-at-the-door paces around the fire.

5. What does Fast Horse vow to do to appease Cold Maker, whom they have offended?
(a) Fast Horse vows to make Red Paint medicine woman.
(b) Fast Horse vows to bring two robes for Cold Maker's daughters.
(c) Fast Horse vows to kill the chief of the Crows.
(d) Fast Horse vows to find Yellow Kidney.

6. Who would Red Paint and White Man's Dog like to give the honor of naming the baby to?
(a) Crows Foot.
(b) Rides-at-the-door.
(c) Fox Eyes.
(d) Yellow Kidney.

7. What does White Man's Dog do for Yellow Kidney's lodge in his absence?
(a) He fixes the roof of Yellow Kidney's lodge.
(b) He hunts and leaves food at Yellow Kidney's lodge.
(c) He sits in the place of Yellow Kidney at meal time.
(d) He brings firewood to Yellow Kidney's lodge.

8. How long does it take for the injured man to regain consciousness?
(a) Three days.
(b) He was never unconscious.
(c) One week and three days.
(d) One week.

9. Why does White Man's Dog blame himself for Yellow Kidney's disfigurement?
(a) Because he should have returned and looked for Yellow Kidney.
(b) Because if he had told his dream, they would have turned back.
(c) Because he did not go into the camp with Yellow Kidney.
(d) Because only he could have dreamed where Yellow Kidney was being held.

10. What happens when White Man's Dog tries to talk to Fast Horse about the possibility that Cold Maker could be holding Yellow Kidney until Fast Horse fulfills his vow?
(a) Fast Horse thinks this is possible and promises to find a way to fulfill his vow.
(b) Cold Maker appears and tells White Man's Dog to mind his own dreams.
(c) Fast Horse shows remorse.
(d) Fast Horse becomes angry.

11. What new name does White Man's Dog receive after receiving war honors from his participation in a horse raid?
(a) Fools Crow.
(b) Man-Who-Kills-Chief.
(c) Napikwans
(d) Fast Horse.

12. What happens to Fools Crow after he and Red Paint have been away from camp for 18 days?
(a) He has a long conversation with Raven in a dream vision.
(b) He meets Raven, a friend of his father's.
(c) He falls and injures his ankle.
(d) He weeps over the false story that resulted in his new name, and confesses all to Red Paint.

13. What new dream does White Man's Dog have in Chapter 9 that foretells of loss and change that will make the Lone Eaters feel as useless as Yellow Kidney?
(a) He dreams that the wolverine loses his strength.
(b) He dreams that So-at-sa-ki (Feather Woman) is banished to earth.
(c) He dreams that the Pikunis lose all their fingers.
(d) He dreams that Fast Horse is killed by the Napikwans.

14. Who is against killing the Napikwans?
(a) Fools Crow and Fast Horse.
(b) Rides-at-the-door and Three Bears.
(c) Fast Horse and Owl Child.
(d) Fools Crow and Red Paint.

15. Who is Heavy Shield Woman?
(a) White Man's Dog's sister.
(b) Fast Horse's mother.
(c) Eagle Rib's daughter.
(d) Yellow Kidney's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What losses do the Pikunis suffer as a result of the battle at Bull Shield's camp?

2. What does White Man's Dog see in his dream just before he wakes up?

3. Whose boastful recklessness worries Yellow Kidney because it could bring trouble to the raiding party's success?

4. How does Red Paint's mother react when Red Paint tell her that she is pregnant?

5. Who becomes Mik-api's apprentice in Chapter 6?

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