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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Yellow Kidney liken his life to?
(a) He thinks his life is like that of an injured bear.
(b) He thinks his life is like that of a mighty warrior.
(c) He thinks his life is like that of a helpless baby.
(d) He thinks his life is like that of an old man.

2. Who is Nitsokan?
(a) A dream helper in Fools Crow's dream.
(b) A Pikunis chief from another tribe.
(c) Red Paint's best friend.
(d) The god of the stars.

3. How do we know that Fast Horse is finally beginning to show some honor?
(a) He asks Owl Child to notify the Lone Eater tribe.
(b) He tells Owl Child that he must return to his people.
(c) He wants to give the man a proper burial ceremony.
(d) Fast Horse admits as he studies the dead man's hands that he was responsible for the mutilation.

4. Where is the Napikwan that injured Fast Horse?
(a) The man Fast Horse wants to get his revenge on is with the Napikwan soldiers at the fort.
(b) The man Fast Horse wants to get his revenge on is nowhere to be found.
(c) The man Fast Horse wants to get his revenge on is in the Napikwan town at the saloon.
(d) The man Fast Horse wants to get his revenge on is at his ranch along with his wife and two children.

5. In the final scene of the book, what are the children doing?
(a) The children are starving.
(b) The children are crying for their mothers.
(c) The children are playing in the rain.
(d) The children are sleeping.

6. What is Yellow Kidney thinking about when he is killed?
(a) He is thinking about how to avoid being killed.
(b) He is thinking about how his life is like that of an old man.
(c) He is thinking of his unborn grandson.
(d) He is thinking of his wife.

7. What is on the travois that the Lone Eater day rider finds?
(a) Owl Child who is shot and dying.
(b) Fools Crow who is asleep as if drugged.
(c) Fast Horse who has the white scab disease.
(d) Yellow Kidney's remains.

8. From Owl Child's lookout, who does Fast Horse recognize approaching?
(a) Yellow Kidney.
(b) Rides-at-the-rails.
(c) Fools Crow.
(d) Boss Ribs.

9. Fools Crow asks Fast Horse why he has changed. What is Fast Horse's response?
(a) He says it was outraged at what happened to Yellow Kidney.
(b) He says wanted to stop the Napikwans from kill all the game.
(c) He says it was Cold Maker's fault because he betrayed him and did not make him powerful.
(d) He says it was Fools Crow fault for making him look bad.

10. What does Running Fisher do that is a betrayal of his father?
(a) He has become the lover of Rides-at-the-door's third wife, who is one of his mothers.
(b) He has defied the authority his father.
(c) He became the lover of Rides-at-the-door's first wife, who is his mother.
(d) He moved out of his father's lodge.

11. What happens to the designs painted on the skin by the woman that Fools Crow now realizes is the legendary So-at sa-ki, Feather Woman, after she leaves the scroll by Fools Crow?
(a) The designs on the skin become brilliant with color.
(b) The designs hum and vibrate.
(c) The designs on the skin disappear.
(d) The designs on the skin come to life.

12. What has happened to Red Paint's youngest brother, One Spot, in Chapter 23?
(a) He had a power dream about a wolf.
(b) He has stepped into a wolf trap.
(c) He is bitten by a wolf.
(d) He gained honor and status by killing a wolf.

13. Why won't the power help him now?
(a) Cold Maker took his power because Fast Horse never made good on his promises.
(b) The power left him because he lost confidence.
(c) It cannot cure the white scab disease or rid them of the Napikwans.
(d) He has not done the proper ceremonies and dances.

14. What do Owl Child and Fast Horse do to the band of Napikwans in Chapter 25?
(a) They kill one Napikwan and chase the others away.
(b) They kill all the Napikwan whiskey runners.
(c) They sneak up on them at night and steal their horses.
(d) They try to talk with them about leaving their hunting grounds alone.

15. What are "whiskey runners"?
(a) A cloth that covers the middle of a table on which whiskey and other alchoholic bottles were lined up for display or sale.
(b) Bands of Napikwan who transport illegal whiskey.
(c) Like pony express riders for the mail, these riders transported whiskey across the country quickly.
(d) A type of sled runner made from a curved portion of a whiskey barrel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far behind Fast Horse is Fools Crow?

2. When the leaders of the Pikunis meet to discuss the Napikwan healer's warning and recommendations in Chapter 28, what do they decide to do?

3. What or who is a "seizer chief?"

4. How does Fast Horse identify the body?

5. What does Fast horse see and do when he wakes up?

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