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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How long will it take for the cure to arrive?
(a) About three days.
(b) About a year.
(c) About a month.
(d) About a week.
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 turn away all strangers to protect their own.
(b) They will travel north to get away from the infected area.
(c) They will ask the Napikwans for blankets and medicine.
(d) They cannot come to an agreement, so they are at an impasse.
3. How does Fast Horse identify the body?
(a) The clothing shows it was a Napikwan seizer.
(b) He looks at the face and also recognizes Yellow Kidney's rifle.
(c) The hands have no fingers, so it must be Yellow Kidney.
(d) A note pinned to the body says it was the wife of a Pikunis brave.
4. What does Fools Crow do to help One Spot get rid of his nightmares?
(a) He performs a ritual to banish the nightmares.
(b) He hugs and comforts One Spot until he goes back to sleep.
(c) He reminds One Spot that if the wolf visits his dreams it is because he may want to become his dream helper.
(d) He gives him an amulet to wear while he sleeps.
5. Where does Yellow Kidney take shelter after leaving the camp?
(a) In an abandoned ranch house.
(b) In a make-shift lean-to.
(c) In a cave.
(d) In an empty war lodge.
6. Which would best describe the losses suffered by the Lone Eater camp from the white scab disease?
(a) After thirteen days, the losses are suprisingly light, with only a few deaths.
(b) The losses were heavy at first, but the arrival of the vaccine on the thirteenth day will prevent any more outbreaks.
(c) The Lone Eaters moved north thirteen days ahead of the plague of the white scab disease.
(d) After thirteen days, the losses are heavy, friends and family have died, and new cases are breaking out.
7. What happens to Fast Horse when the woman opens the door?
(a) He is filled with a power he does not understand.
(b) He has a fever and the woman takes him in to treat him.
(c) Anger fills him and he trembles with the desire to kill her.
(d) Exhaustion overtakes him and he swoons.
8. Does Fast Horse know where he is going on this trip, and why?
(a) He does not know where he is going; only that it will help the Lone Eaters.
(b) He knows he will travel to a canyon; he will discover a new land for the Pikunis.
(c) He knows he is going to a far away land; he does not know why.
(d) He does not know where he is going; he does not know why he needs to take this trip.
9. Who says, "You Fast Horse, you have become the heartless insect, for you would betray your own people"?
(a) Boss Ribs.
(b) Rides-at-the-rails.
(c) Fools Crow.
(d) Yellow Kidney.
10. In his next dream, what does a dog show Fools Crow?
(a) He shows Fools Crow a hidden cave where he is to take shelter.
(b) The dog shows Fools Crow how to get around a boulder that blocks the canyon by slipping under and through a bush.
(c) He shows Fools Crow the boulder that blocks Cold Maker's stream at last.
(d) He shows Fools Crow the future of his wife and child.
11. How does the finding of Yellow Kidney further develop the theme of loss and change?
(a) The finding of Yellow Kidney is not a good example of loss and change.
(b) Yellow Kidney's fingers represent loss, while his death represents change.
(c) Although Fast Horse no longer follows the ways of the Pikuni (loss), honor is rekindled as he admits his responsiblity (positive change).
(d) The discovery that Yellow Kidney is dead (loss) will mean the Lone Eaters will have to adjust to life without him (change).
12. Where does Kills-close-to-the-lake go when she slips out of her mother's dinner gathering?
(a) She goes to the lake to fish.
(b) She follows Fools Crow to find Fast Horse.
(c) She goes to Running Fisher's lodge.
(d) She goes to visit Heavy Shield Woman.
13. In Chapter 19, what does Heavy Shield Woman do for her guests?
(a) She prepares a sleeping area for them.
(b) She gives each a gift.
(c) She tells them stories.
(d) She prepares a meal for them.
14. What event does Fools Crow remember in Chapter 28 that did make him feel he had power?
(a) He remembered when he freed the wolverine.
(b) He remembered hunting for Yellow Kidney's lodge.
(c) He remembered when he took Bull Shield's scalp.
(d) He remembered when Red Paint told him she was pregnant.
15. What does Fools Crow see when the ranch comes into view?
(a) Fools Crow sees Fast Horse and Owl Child.
(b) Fools Crow sees a man working in the corral with his horses.
(c) Fools Crow sees buildings with corrals, but no animals.
(d) Fools Crow sees a child sitting in front of the ranch house, crying.
Short Answer Questions
1. Fools Crow asks Fast Horse why he has changed. What is Fast Horse's response?
2. Which of Boss Ribs' children die of the white scab disease?
3. What problem does Fast Horse voice to Owl Child?
4. How long a trip does Nitsokan tell Fools Crow he needs to take?
5. What does Fools Crow look at as he ponders the situation they are in with the Napikwans and the white scab disease?
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