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

2. How does Fast Horse identify the body?
(a) He looks at the face and also recognizes Yellow Kidney's rifle.
(b) A note pinned to the body says it was the wife of a Pikunis brave.
(c) The clothing shows it was a Napikwan seizer.
(d) The hands have no fingers, so it must be Yellow Kidney.

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

4. Why is Heavy Shield Woman's concerned about Running Fisher?
(a) Running Fisher is going with Fools Crow to find Fast Horse.
(b) Running Fisher has been shot.
(c) Running Fisher has moved out of the lodge and she does not know why.
(d) She knows about Running Fisher and Kills-close-to-the-lake.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "Medicine Line?"

2. When the leaders of the Pikunis meet to discuss the Napikwan healer's warning and recommendations in Chapter 28, what do they decide to do?

3. Why is Fools Crow out hunting for food during the season of plague?

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

5. How should Fools Crow dress for this trip, according to Nitsokan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the thrashing wings that Fools Crow hears when he wakes in the woman's dwelling?

2. What happens when Fools Crow catches up to Fast Horse and tries to talk to him about his association with Owl Child and his killing of the rancher?

3. What advice and hope does Feather Woman give to Fools Crow after he sees the designs on the skin come to life?

4. What happens after killing the whiskey runners that shows that Fast Horse may be changing and becoming concerned for his people after all?

5. What happens to Yellow Kidney while he is taking shelter in the war lodge, and does he see it coming?

6. Describe who the man is that Fast Horse wants to kill.

7. How does Fools Crow discover the new land in his dream during his seven-day journey?

8. Describe what Fools Crow sees or does not see in the water of the place he is lead to in his dream.

9. What does Fast Horse suggest Fools Crow tell his father when he returns to the Lone Eater Camp?

10. Describe the devastation in the Lone Eaters camp after thirteen days of the small pox disease.

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