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

2. What does Fools Crow see when the ranch comes into view?
(a) Fools Crow sees buildings with corrals, but no animals.
(b) Fools Crow sees a man working in the corral with his horses.
(c) Fools Crow sees Fast Horse and Owl Child.
(d) Fools Crow sees a child sitting in front of the ranch house, crying.

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

4. What does Running Fisher do that is a betrayal of his father?
(a) He moved out of his father's lodge.
(b) He has become the lover of Rides-at-the-door's third wife, who is one of his mothers.
(c) He has defied the authority his father.
(d) He became the lover of Rides-at-the-door's first wife, who is his mother.

5. What does Fools Crow find when he rides to the ranch house?
(a) He finds the weeping child.
(b) He finds Fast Horse's many-shots-gun.
(c) He finds the man and his wife hiding inside.
(d) He finds the scalped dead man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the white man leading pack horses plan to shelter for the night?

2. What does Fast Horse do at the ranch?

3. How does the finding of Yellow Kidney further develop the theme of loss and change?

4. Why does Mik-api feel his recurrent dream is incomplete?

5. How far behind Fast Horse is Fools Crow?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Running Fisher and Kills-close-to-the-lake related and what is their current relationship?

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

3. What do the Pikunis ask of the seizers when told of the spread of small pox, and what do the seizers reply?

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

5. How does the author introduce hope into the devastation that has forced the Lone Eaters to begin the journey toward the Sand Hills that gives this book its bitter-sweet ending?

6. How does Fast Horse's reaction to finding Yellow Kidney's body show he is beginning to regret the path he has chosen with Owl Child?

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

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

9. When the Pikunis chiefs meet for council, what do they decide to do about the white healer's warning and the seizers' demands?

10. What do Owl Child and Fast Horse do at the ranch of the Napikwan?

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