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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it about White Man's Dog that Yellow Kidney likes in spite of his unlucky reputation?
(a) White Man's Dog projects a steadiness and calmness.
(b) White Man's Dog is an entertaining traveling companion.
(c) White Man's Dog always does what he is told.
(d) White Man's Dog is wise beyond his years.

2. Who or what is the Pikunis?
(a) A band of renegades who hate the white man.
(b) A name for the white man.
(c) A band of the Blackfeet tribe.
(d) The sweat lodge.

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

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

5. What does Yellow Kidney report that Fast Horse did when Yellow Kidney was leading Bull Shield's horse away during the raid that ultimately resulted in his capture?
(a) Fast Horse was careless about leaving footprints.
(b) Fast Horse stepped on a branch that snapped loudly.
(c) Fast Horse lost control of the horse he was leading and it ran away.
(d) Fast Horse broke the silence with fierce boasting.

6. 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 close friends with White Man's Dog.
(b) Fast Horse is an outsider among the Lone Eaters
(c) Fast Horse is respected as a great horse-stealer.
(d) Fast Horse will receive power and position from the Beaver Medicine.

7. 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 wants him to go so he can get revenge for Yellow Kidney's mutilation.
(c) She is nervous, but proud that he is going.
(d) She is scared and does not want him to go.

8. What does Raven want Fools Crow to do about the evil Napikwan hunter, and why?
(a) Raven wants Fools Crow to tell Owl Child about the hunter because Owl Child likes to kill white men.
(b) Raven wants Fools Crow to kill the hunter because he is killing all the game wastefully and the Pikunis will starve.
(c) Raven wants Fools Crow to follow the hunter and claim his kills for the Pikunis so the meat will not be wasted.
(d) Raven wants Fools Crow to tell the Napikwans with the blue uniforms so they can stop the wasteful killing of animals.

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

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

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

12. 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 his father, Boss Ribs, to be healed.
(c) He takes him back to Owl Child, who is his friend.
(d) He takes him to the medicine man and asks him for advice.

13. 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 Red Paint has become pregnant.
(d) That Fast Horse is rejecting his promising future with the tribe as holder of the Beaver Medicine in favor of joining with Owl Child.

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

15. Which statement best describes the consensus of the men after discussing the present situation of the Pikunis and the Napikwans?
(a) They would rather die fighting the Napikwans and retain their pride.
(b) They would like to move camp to a place where the Napikwans are not likely to find them.
(c) They would like to propose a treaty with the Napikwans.
(d) They would like to count coup on the the Napikwans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the sun in the middle of the fourth day?

2. Whose idea is it to stage a horse raid on the Crows?

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

4. What is the history of the relationship between the Pikunis and the Napikwans as told by Rides-at-the-door?

5. What does White Man's Dog sing as he rides into Bull Shield's camp?

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