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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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?
(a) They will ask the Napikwans for blankets and medicine.
(b) They cannot come to an agreement, so they are at an impasse.
(c) They will turn away all strangers to protect their own.
(d) They will travel north to get away from the infected area.

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

4. Even though One Spot follows Fools Crow's advice, he comes down with what disease?
(a) Measles.
(b) Rabies.
(c) Small Pox.
(d) White Scab disease.

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

6. Where does Yellow Kidney take shelter after leaving the camp?
(a) In a make-shift lean-to.
(b) In a cave.
(c) In an abandoned ranch house.
(d) In an empty war lodge.

7. Does Fast Horse know where he is going on this trip, and why?
(a) He knows he will travel to a canyon; he will discover a new land for the Pikunis.
(b) He knows he is going to a far away land; he does not know why.
(c) He does not know where he is going; he does not know why he needs to take this trip.
(d) He does not know where he is going; only that it will help the Lone Eaters.

8. What problem does Fast Horse voice to Owl Child?
(a) He tells Owl Child that his dream nemesis, Cold Maker, is planning revenge.
(b) He tells Owl Child he thinks that killing Napikwans so close to the Pikunis camps will bring trouble for the Pikunis people.
(c) He tells Owl Child he is running out of bullets for his many-shots-rifle.
(d) He tells Owl Child that winter is coming and they have not put up rations for the cold months.

9. What does Fast horse see and do when he wakes up?
(a) He sees a dog, which he kills for food.
(b) He sees he is alone and goes back to sleep.
(c) He sees a woman painting on a yellow skin and asks her what she is doing.
(d) He sees his only company is a dog, he eats and falls asleep again.

10. Who says, "You Fast Horse, you have become the heartless insect, for you would betray your own people"?
(a) Rides-at-the-rails.
(b) Yellow Kidney.
(c) Boss Ribs.
(d) Fools Crow.

11. Which statement is true about Bull Shield's scalp in Chapter 28?
(a) Bull Shield's scalp represents a bygone era.
(b) Bull Shields scalp has become shrunken and trivial.
(c) Bull Shield's scalp represents desisive action.
(d) Bull Shield's scalp is powerful medicine.

12. In Chapter 19, what does Heavy Shield Woman do for her guests?
(a) She prepares a meal for them.
(b) She gives each a gift.
(c) She prepares a sleeping area for them.
(d) She tells them stories.

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

14. Why does Mik-api feel his recurrent dream is incomplete?
(a) Raven has told him to expect a new revelation, but he hasn't dreamed it yet.
(b) He just has a feeling there should be more to the dream.
(c) His dream has to do with Yellow Kidney, yet Yellow Kidney is not in the dream.
(d) He keeps waking up before the dream has ended.

15. How long will it take for the cure to arrive?
(a) About a year.
(b) About three days.
(c) About a week.
(d) About a month.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long a trip does Nitsokan tell Fools Crow he needs to take?

2. What is the white scab disease?

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

4. What does Fools Crow look at as he ponders the situation they are in with the Napikwans and the white scab disease?

5. What does the white man with the pack horses see at the war lodge?

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