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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. Which would best describe the losses suffered by the Lone Eater camp from the white scab disease?
(a) After thirteen days, the losses are heavy, friends and family have died, and new cases are breaking out.
(b) The losses were heavy at first, but the arrival of the vaccine on the thirteenth day will prevent any more outbreaks.
(c) After thirteen days, the losses are suprisingly light, with only a few deaths.
(d) The Lone Eaters moved north thirteen days ahead of the plague of the white scab disease.

2. Why would the Lone Eaters trust the information the Napikwan healer brings?
(a) Because the healer was married to a Pikunis woman who died of the white scab disease.
(b) Because Fools Crow vouched for him as a fellow healer.
(c) They would not trust any information from any Napikwan.
(d) Because he smoked the pipe and swore his tongue was true and not forked.

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

4. How long will it take for the cure to arrive?
(a) About a week.
(b) About a month.
(c) About a year.
(d) About three days.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on the travois that the Lone Eater day rider finds?

2. What cure does the Napikwan healer tell the Lone Eaters about?

3. What does Fools Crow look at as he ponders the situation they are in with the Napikwans and the white scab disease?

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

5. What problem does Fast Horse voice to Owl Child?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Why doesn't Fast Horse return to the Lone Eaters himself?

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

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

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

7. Why is Fools Crow's mother angry with him as she fixes food for her guests?

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

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

10. What happens when Owl Child spots whiskey runners?

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