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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the Lone Eaters does Owl Child invite to come visit him?
(a) Three Bears.
(b) White Man's Dog.
(c) Mik-api.
(d) Fast Horse.

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

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

4. Which of the following is a true statement about Fast Horse's relationship to the Lone Eaters since his return from the horse raid on the Crow without Yellow Kidney?
(a) Fast Horse is respected as a great horse-stealer.
(b) Fast Horse is close friends with White Man's Dog.
(c) Fast Horse is an outsider among the Lone Eaters
(d) Fast Horse will receive power and position from the Beaver Medicine.

5. Which of the following does NOT advance the theme of loss and change in Chapters 13 and 14?
(a) That the white man is killing game for no reason.
(b) That Raven would have Fools Crow break with tradition and kill a white man.
(c) That Fast Horse is rejecting his promising future with the tribe as holder of the Beaver Medicine in favor of joining with Owl Child.
(d) That Red Paint has become pregnant.

6. What does Boss Ribs want Fools Crow to do about Fast Horse at the end of Chapter 17?
(a) He wants Fools Crow to banish Fast Horse.
(b) He wants Fools Crow to stop being friends with Fast Horse.
(c) He asks Fools Crow to kill Owl Child and bring Fast Horse home.
(d) He asks Fools Crow to find Fast Horse and bring him home.

7. In the beginning of Chapter 7, three riders enter the Pikunis camp riding on what?
(a) Picunis horses.
(b) Crow horses.
(c) Magical horses.
(d) Nipikwan horses.

8. What does Fools Crow do with the injured rider that approached him at the beginning of Chapter 16?
(a) He takes him to his lodge to nurse him back to health.
(b) He takes him to the medicine man and asks him for advice.
(c) He takes him to his father, Boss Ribs, to be healed.
(d) He takes him back to Owl Child, who is his friend.

9. What does Yellow Kidney give to White Man's Dog as a wedding present?
(a) A knife with an antler handle he made as a youth.
(b) A ceremonial blanket.
(c) His many-shots-gun.
(d) The skin of a white deer.

10. How does the war party react to the phenomenon that occurs with the sun on the fourth day?
(a) They perform a sun ceremony to restore the sun.
(b) They see it as a bad omen and are afraid.
(c) They see it as a good omen that Bull Shield's camp will be destroyed.
(d) They do not know what it means and are bewildered.

11. What does Fast Horse like and respect about Owl Child?
(a) That Owl Child has stolen a white horse.
(b) That Owl Child has traveled in far lands.
(c) That Owl Child sells horses.
(d) That Owl Child defies the Napikwans.

12. Does Fools Crow tell the Lone Eater Camp what he did to the Napikwan?
(a) No, he is too ashamed to admit what he did to the Napikwan hunter.
(b) Yes, but he does not tell the whole story of the Napikwan hunter.
(c) No, because Raven told him to keep secret what he had to do to the Napikwan hunter.
(d) Yes, he tells them that due to the instructions of the Raven in his dream, he has killed a Napikwan hunter.

13. In Chapter 9, who said, "That's the way it is now. All the breathing things are gone--except for us. But hurry, brother, for I feel my strength slipping away."
(a) Fast Horse, just before he leaves with all his belongings.
(b) Yellow Kidney to White Man's Dog.
(c) The wolverine in White Man's Dog's dream.
(d) The wolverine in Kills-close-to-the-lake's dream.

14. How does Red Paint feel about her husband going to war with the war party?
(a) She is confident that he will bring honor to the family.
(b) She is scared and does not want him to go.
(c) She wants him to go so he can get revenge for Yellow Kidney's mutilation.
(d) She is nervous, but proud that he is going.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement best describes the consensus of the men after discussing the present situation of the Pikunis and the Napikwans?

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

3. Why is Fool's Crow uncomfortable with his new name?

4. In Chapters 5 and 6, which of the following is NOT something the author has revealed to the reader about the Pikunis culture?

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

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