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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 brings firewood to Yellow Kidney's lodge.
(d) He sits in the place of Yellow Kidney at meal time.

4. 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) Cold Maker shows Fast Horse a white girl in a tipi and tells him to find her and rescue her.
(c) Fast Horse gives Cold Maker a drink from a frozen stream and Cold Maker promises good fortune for the raiding party.
(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.

5. Who does White Man's Dog want to take for his wife?
(a) Feather Woman.
(b) Kills-close-to-the-lake.
(c) Heavy Shield Woman.
(d) Red Paint.

6. How does Red Paint's mother react when Red Paint tell her that she is pregnant?
(a) She hugs Red Paint and cries.
(b) She runs out to tell the rest of the camp.
(c) She is worried that Red Paint is too young to be with child.
(d) She tells Red Paint that she must keep this a secret until after the war party returns.

7. In Part 1, Chapters 1 and 2, what theme is being introduced through the encroachment of the Napikwans, the development of the characters, and is further emphasized through the point of view of Rides-at-the Door?
(a) The theme of "boys will be boys."
(b) The theme of "nature versus nurture."
(c) The theme of "loss and change."
(d) The theme of "love and dreams."

8. 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.

9. Which of the following does NOT advance the theme of loss and change in Chapters 13 and 14?
(a) That Raven would have Fools Crow break with tradition and kill a white man.
(b) That the white man is killing game for no reason.
(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.

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

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

12. Why does Yellow Kidney include White Man's Dog in the raiding party heading for the Crow camp?
(a) Out of respect for White Man's Dog's father.
(b) Because he wants to teach White Man's Dog to toughen up.
(c) So that he will have someone to blame if all does not go well.
(d) Because White Man's Dog and Fast Horse are close friends.

13. What does Fast Horse's alliance with Owl Child foretell?
(a) More trouble with the Napikwans.
(b) Good fortune for the Lone Eaters.
(c) A fighting alliance with the other Pikunis tribes.
(d) Destruction of the Napikwans.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Heavy Shield Woman?

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

3. Why would the author use so much Native American terminology in this story?

4. What is Fools Crow surprised by that Raven knows?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 13, how does Red Paint wake White Man's Dog?

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