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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the "Medicine Line?"
(a) The border between the United States and Canada.
(b) This refers to the line up of Pikunis as they wait for blankets to be passed out from the white man.
(c) The ritual line that a Pikunis crosses to become a many-faces man.
(d) This refers to the plague of white scab disease and the rows of infected Pikunis.

3. How long a trip does Nitsokan tell Fools Crow he needs to take?
(a) A seven-month journey.
(b) A three-day journey.
(c) A seven-day journey.
(d) A three-month journey.

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

5. What is the woman in the garden doing?
(a) She is dancing.
(b) She is singing a song of mourning.
(c) She is planting seeds.
(d) She is digging turnips.

6. How far behind Fast Horse is Fools Crow?
(a) Three moons.
(b) Three days.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Three hours.

7. How should Fools Crow dress for this trip, according to Nitsokan?
(a) He should dress in his ceremonial robes.
(b) He should dress like a beggar.
(c) He should dress like a warior.
(d) He should dress for winter.

8. How do the Pikuni leaders feel about meeting with the seizer chiefs?
(a) They are eager to meet and resolve issues so that the killing will stop.
(b) They want to fast and meditate on this idea before making a decision.
(c) They are cautious and fear it could be a trap.
(d) They are against meeting with the seizer chiefs.

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

10. What punishment does Rides-at-the-door decide to impose on Kills-close-to-the-lake?
(a) She must not leave the lodge without permission.
(b) She must leave before sunrise.
(c) At sunrise, she will be mutilated so she will never be attractive to another again.
(d) She will be killed at sunrise.

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

12. At dusk on the third day, where does Fast Horse find himself?
(a) He arrives at a Pikunis camp at the edge of a lake.
(b) He arrives at a small Napikwan dwelling in a canyon.
(c) He arrives at the deserted war lodge.
(d) He is lost in the hills.

13. What does Fools Crow discover while hunting that angers him?
(a) Carcasses of the black horn left to rot by the Napikwan hunters, who only wanted their skins.
(b) All the villages have been devestated by the white scab disease.
(c) All the game has been killed or driven away by the Napikwan.
(d) He finds a few survivors, which includes some children, from a camp burned by the Seizers.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 31, what does Fools Crow see the older woman in the doe skin doing?

2. How long does Nitsokan challenge Fast Horse to travel without stopping?

3. Whose gossip does Heavy Shield Woman look forward to hearing?

4. What problem does Fast Horse voice to Owl Child?

5. Who does Three Bears want representing the Lone Eaters at the meeting with the seizer chiefs?

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