View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news do the visitors bring to the Lone Eaters' camp?
(a) News of war declared upon the Pikunis by the Napikwan.
(b) News of the spread of the white scab disease.
(c) News of the latest ambushes perpetrated on the Napikwan.
(d) News and gossip of interest only to the women.

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

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

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

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

6. Fools Crow asks Fast Horse why he has changed. What is Fast Horse's response?
(a) He says it was outraged at what happened to Yellow Kidney.
(b) He says it was Cold Maker's fault because he betrayed him and did not make him powerful.
(c) He says wanted to stop the Napikwans from kill all the game.
(d) He says it was Fools Crow fault for making him look bad.

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

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

9. 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 a pack of wolves scavenging on something.
(c) He sees a horse tied outside.
(d) He sees the war lodge is on fire.

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

11. What does the land that Fools Crow sees in his dream look like?
(a) It is a desolate wasteland with no water, plants, rocks or debris.
(b) It is beautiful, but there is no life in it. The water has a sandy bottom with no plants, rocks or debris.
(c) It is beautiful and full of game and lush plants.
(d) It is mountainous with a river running through it.

12. In the final scene of the book, what are the children doing?
(a) The children are crying for their mothers.
(b) The children are starving.
(c) The children are sleeping.
(d) The children are playing in the rain.

13. 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 the lake to fish.
(c) She goes to Running Fisher's lodge.
(d) She goes to visit Heavy Shield Woman.

14. 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) Boss Ribs.
(d) Fools Crow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Fast Horse and Owl Child do to the Napikwan wagons and oxen?

2. After rejoining Owl Child and his band, what does Fast Horse tell them he wants?

3. When Yellow Kidney leaves, what does he hope for his wife?

4. What does Owl Child do at the ranch?

5. Which statement is true about Bull Shield's scalp in Chapter 28?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 911 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample