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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Fools Crow surprised by that Raven knows?
(a) How to talk.
(b) That Red Paint is pregnant.
(c) His new name.
(d) What happened at Bull Shield's camp.

2. What does Rides-at-the-door think they should do about the Napikwans?
(a) He thinks they should join Fast Horse and Owl Child and fight the Napikwans.
(b) He thinks they should move the camp farther from the Napikwans.
(c) He thinks they should leave them alone.
(d) He thinks they should pray and hold a cleansing ritual.

3. Fast Horse is a young brave who could best be described as follows:
(a) Someone who is kind and unassuming.
(b) Someone who is afraid of the Crow.
(c) Someone who brags and is full of self-importance.
(d) Someone who is always thinking of the future.

4. Where does Fast Horse go with all his belongings?
(a) He moves in with Kills-close-to-the-lake.
(b) He goes out on a spirit quest.
(c) No one knows.
(d) He joins Owl Child's band.

5. Whose boastful recklessness worries Yellow Kidney because it could bring trouble to the raiding party's success?
(a) Fast Horse.
(b) White Man's Dog.
(c) The Pikunis.
(d) Cold Maker.

6. What does the author achieve by opening Chapter 3 from Yellow Kidney's point of view?
(a) The reader is able to see some of the qualities and deficits in the two main characters.
(b) The author prevents the reader from becoming bored.
(c) The author achieves a mood shift for the reader.
(d) The author is able to reveal Yellow Kidney's dreams.

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

8. At the beginning of Chapter 13, how does Red Paint wake White Man's Dog?
(a) She tickles him.
(b) She accidentally trips over him.
(c) She calls him by his new name, Sleep-bringer.
(d) She calls him by his new name, Fools Crow.

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

10. What does Mik-api do when White Man's Dog tells him about his dream of the white-faced girl?
(a) Mik-api sends White Man's Dog on a dream quest.
(b) Mik-api performs a purifying ceremony.
(c) Mik-api banishes Fast Horse from the Lone Eaters.
(d) Mik-api scolds White Man's Dog for not telling this dream sooner.

11. Why does the brave, White Man's Dog, fear that no woman will find him attractive as a husband?
(a) He has a poor self-image.
(b) He has a scar on his face.
(c) He does not have any wealth to offer.
(d) He has never had a vision.

12. 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 the Pikunis lose all their fingers.
(c) He dreams that Fast Horse is killed by the Napikwans.
(d) He dreams that So-at-sa-ki (Feather Woman) is banished to earth.

13. What events make Red Paint question the fairness of fate?
(a) That Fools Crow was a war hero, yet is not made a chief.
(b) That her father is maimed, her mother unhappy, that Boss Ribs has to turn his son away, and yet Fast Horse lives.
(c) The raid on Bull Shield's camp was not successful.
(d) That the dreams of her husband has caused him to kill a Napikwan.

14. In Chapter 13, who arrives at the Lone Eaters' camp?
(a) The seizers, wearing blue uniforms.
(b) The seizers, wearing war paint.
(c) Owl Child and Fast Horse.
(d) Members of Bull Shield's camp, wearing blue uniforms.

15. What happens in Fast Horse's power dream?
(a) Cold Maker shows Fast Horse a white girl in a tipi and tells him to find her and rescue her.
(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 warns of a great freeze that will overtake the land, so the raiding party must hurry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lone rider goes to Fools Crow at the beginning of Chapter 16, and what injury does he suffer?

2. What concerns Rides-at-the-door regarding White Man's Dog's choice of a wife?

3. How has Yellow Kidney reacted to his disfigurement since he has returned home to the Lone Eaters?

4. How long does it take for the injured man to regain consciousness?

5. Why does Yellow Kidney include White Man's Dog in the raiding party heading for the Crow camp?

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