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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Heavy Shield Woman?
(a) Fast Horse's mother.
(b) Yellow Kidney's wife.
(c) White Man's Dog's sister.
(d) Eagle Rib's daughter.

2. What does Fast Horse's alliance with Owl Child foretell?
(a) Destruction of the Napikwans.
(b) More trouble with the Napikwans.
(c) A fighting alliance with the other Pikunis tribes.
(d) Good fortune for the Lone Eaters.

3. Who becomes Mik-api's apprentice in Chapter 6?
(a) White Man's Dog.
(b) Yellow Kidney.
(c) Heavy Shield Woman.
(d) Fast Horse.

4. What structure does White Man's Dog enter in his dream?
(a) A cave where Cold Maker waits.
(b) A sweat lodge filled with warrior braves.
(c) A white man's tent, where he sees a girl.
(d) A tipi filled with dark shapes.

5. What happens to the sun in the middle of the fourth day?
(a) The sun shines even though it is raining.
(b) The sun disappears in an eclipse.
(c) The sun appears to shine more brightly.
(d) The sun disappears behind a cloud.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in Fast Horse's power dream?

2. Why does the brave, White Man's Dog, fear that no woman will find him attractive as a husband?

3. What is the history of the relationship between the Pikunis and the Napikwans as told by Rides-at-the-door?

4. Which of the following is a true statement about Fast Horse's relationship to the Lone Eaters since his return from the horse raid on the Crow without Yellow Kidney?

5. Who does White Man's Dog daydream about that makes him feel shame?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Three Bears think the riders who enter the Lone Eater's camp at the beginning of Chapter 7 have probably stolen the horses they have with them?

2. How does the war party react to the solar eclipse on the fourth day out?

3. Where does Fast Horse decide to go upon his recovery, and why?

4. Who are Running Fisher and Rides-at-the-door, and what disturbing news do they bring the others in Chapter 9?

5. What discussion is sparked when Fools Crow tells the Lone Eater camp that he has killed a Napikwan hunter?

6. Describe White Man's Dog's recurring dream in Chapter 3.

7. When White Man's Dog marries Red Paint, her father, Yellow Kidney, gives White Man's Dog his many-shots-gun as a wedding present. Why is this particularly significant to White Man's Dog?

8. What happens when Yellow Kidney and the raiding party try to find the stream from Fast Horse's dream?

9. Who are the seizers and why have they come to talk with the Lone Eaters?

10. Why does White Man's Dog think that Yellow Kidney's disappearance and Fast Horse's dream may be related, and what does he do about it?

(see the answer keys)

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