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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Rides-at-the-door returns from the council meeting, does the camp agree with the demands of the Napikwans?
(a) They agree reluctantly only because they will not receive blankets and medicine for the white scab disease.
(b) Yes, they hope to apease the Napikwan and will comply with all the demands.
(c) No, they reject all the seizer's demands.
(d) They agree with the demand to turn in Fast Horse, but reject the other two.

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

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

4. 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 is bitten by a wolf.
(c) He has stepped into a wolf trap.
(d) He gained honor and status by killing a wolf.

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

6. Why is Fools Crow out hunting for food during the season of plague?
(a) Because all the braves take turns hunting.
(b) Fools Crow is responsible for providing for his own family.
(c) Because all the healthy men not suffering from the white scab disease must hunt or the people will starve.
(d) Because they are preparing for a feast day.

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

8. What time of day does Fools Crow choose to ride to the ranch house?
(a) At dusk.
(b) At noon.
(c) At night, after the moon has risen.
(d) In the morning.

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

10. 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 hum and vibrate.
(b) The designs on the skin come to life.
(c) The designs on the skin become brilliant with color.
(d) The designs on the skin disappear.

11. What does the white man with the pack horses see at the war lodge?
(a) He sees smoke coming out of the chimney.
(b) He sees the war lodge is on fire.
(c) He sees a horse tied outside.
(d) He sees a pack of wolves scavenging on something.

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

13. Who visits the Lone Eaters' camp in Chapters 25-26?
(a) Yellow Kidney.
(b) Pretty-on-top and a Napikwan healer.
(c) A delegate of the Napikwan seizers.
(d) Owl Child and Fast Horse.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who returns to the Lone Eaters the night of the first death from the white scabs disease?

2. What does Owl Child do at the ranch?

3. What does the land that Fools Crow sees in his dream look like?

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

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

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