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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose gossip does Heavy Shield Woman look forward to hearing?
(a) White Grass Woman's gossip.
(b) Red Paint's gossip.
(c) Kills-close-to-the-lake's gossip.
(d) Fast Horse's gossip.

2. Who returns to the Lone Eaters the night of the first death from the white scabs disease?
(a) Fools Crow.
(b) Yellow Kidney.
(c) Running Fisher.
(d) Fast Horse.

3. Why is Heavy Shield Woman angry with Fools Crow?
(a) She caught Fools Crow looking at Kills-close-to-the-lake.
(b) She is tired of him asking for a many-shots-gun.
(c) She disagrees with his arrogant and self-serving attitude.
(d) She feels he is risking his life for Fast Horse.

4. What does Fast Horse see on the skin after he wakes up?
(a) The skin is covered with designs he does not understand.
(b) He sees a small meal set out on the skin and eats it.
(c) He sees the skin is covered with blood.
(d) The yellow skin is empty, even though he saw her painting on it earlier.

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

6. What does Owl Child do at the ranch?
(a) Owl Child rapes and kills the white man's wife.
(b) Owl Child steals the white man's horses.
(c) Owl Child rapes the white man's wife, but leaves her alive.
(d) Owl Child steals the white man's children.

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

8. What does Fools Crow see when the ranch comes into view?
(a) Fools Crow sees a man working in the corral with his horses.
(b) Fools Crow sees buildings with corrals, but no animals.
(c) Fools Crow sees Fast Horse and Owl Child.
(d) Fools Crow sees a child sitting in front of the ranch house, crying.

9. What is Red Paint worried about in Chapter 22?
(a) She worries for her husband.
(b) She worries for her father.
(c) She worries for her mother.
(d) She worries for her unborn child.

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

11. What does Owl Child do at the war lodge?
(a) He sings his death song.
(b) He stays with the horses.
(c) He cooks their dinner.
(d) He goes with Fast Horse into the lodge.

12. In Chapter 31, what does Fools Crow see the older woman in the doe skin doing?
(a) She is cooking food.
(b) She is digging turnips with her digging stick and putting them in a sack.
(c) She is singing as she paints a design on a yellow skin.
(d) She is singing with a bag of turnips from her garden.

13. 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) A type of sled runner made from a curved portion of a whiskey barrel.
(c) Bands of Napikwan who transport illegal whiskey.
(d) Like pony express riders for the mail, these riders transported whiskey across the country quickly.

14. Who is outside of Running Fisher's lodge, eavesdropping on lovemaking sounds?
(a) Striped Face.
(b) The Sun Chief.
(c) Kills-close-to-the-lake.
(d) White Grass Woman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What event does Fools Crow remember in Chapter 28 that did make him feel he had power?

2. What news do the visitors bring to the Lone Eaters' camp?

3. What does Fast Horse do when he and Owl Child arrive at the war lodge?

4. Why is Fools Crow out hunting for food during the season of plague?

5. What does Owl Child want to do now that his grudge with Four Bears has been settled?

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