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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why won't the power help him now?
(a) Cold Maker took his power because Fast Horse never made good on his promises.
(b) The power left him because he lost confidence.
(c) He has not done the proper ceremonies and dances.
(d) It cannot cure the white scab disease or rid them of the Napikwans.

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

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

5. What does Owl Child want to do now that his grudge with Four Bears has been settled?
(a) Owl Child has no more use for Fast Horse and wants him to return to his tribe.
(b) Owl Child is satisfied and wants to return to a life of peace.
(c) Owl Child wants to kill all the Napikwans.
(d) Owl Child wants Fast Horse to kill a Napikwan, too.

6. Who is in charge of Indian Policy for the Napikwan government?
(a) General Custer.
(b) President McKinley.
(c) Robert Grant.
(d) General Sully.

7. In his next dream, what does a dog show Fools Crow?
(a) The dog shows Fools Crow how to get around a boulder that blocks the canyon by slipping under and through a bush.
(b) He shows Fools Crow the future of his wife and child.
(c) He shows Fools Crow the boulder that blocks Cold Maker's stream at last.
(d) He shows Fools Crow a hidden cave where he is to take shelter.

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

9. What are "whiskey runners"?
(a) Bands of Napikwan who transport illegal whiskey.
(b) Like pony express riders for the mail, these riders transported whiskey across the country quickly.
(c) A cloth that covers the middle of a table on which whiskey and other alchoholic bottles were lined up for display or sale.
(d) A type of sled runner made from a curved portion of a whiskey barrel.

10. 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 does not know where he is going; he does not know why he needs to take this trip.
(d) He knows he is going to a far away land; he does not know why.

11. What do Fast Horse and Owl Child do to the Napikwan wagons and oxen?
(a) They make a cook fire from the wagons and eat the oxen.
(b) They burn the wagons and drive away the oxen.
(c) They steal the wagons and oxen to carry their own supplies.
(d) They abandon the wagons and slaughter the oxen.

12. 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 cooking food.
(c) She is singing with a bag of turnips from her garden.
(d) She is singing as she paints a design on a yellow skin.

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

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

15. Where does Kills-close-to-the-lake go when she slips out of her mother's dinner gathering?
(a) She follows Fools Crow to find Fast Horse.
(b) She goes to visit Heavy Shield Woman.
(c) She goes to Running Fisher's lodge.
(d) She goes to the lake to fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Owl Child and Fast Horse do to the band of Napikwans in Chapter 25?

2. Even though One Spot follows Fools Crow's advice, he comes down with what disease?

3. Which of the Napikwan demands do the Pikuni promise to cooperate with?

4. What is Red Paint worried about in Chapter 22?

5. What does Fools Crow see when the ranch comes into view?

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