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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 Fools Crow do to help One Spot get rid of his nightmares?
(a) He hugs and comforts One Spot until he goes back to sleep.
(b) He performs a ritual to banish the nightmares.
(c) He reminds One Spot that if the wolf visits his dreams it is because he may want to become his dream helper.
(d) He gives him an amulet to wear while he sleeps.

2. What or who is a "seizer chief?"
(a) A dream character who "seizes" Pikunis souls.
(b) An amulet imbued with the power to control the enemy's mind.
(c) White men who represent the Napikwan government.
(d) A renegade Indian who abducts Napikwans.

3. Even though One Spot follows Fools Crow's advice, he comes down with what disease?
(a) Rabies.
(b) White Scab disease.
(c) Small Pox.
(d) Measles.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of day does Fools Crow choose to ride to the ranch house?

2. What does Fast Horse do to a whiskey runner?

3. Who visits the Lone Eaters' camp in Chapters 25-26?

4. What is Yellow Kidney thinking about when he is killed?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. A white healer comes to the Lone Eaters' camp to warn of the smallpox. Why would the Pikunis believe anything a white man has to say?

2. 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?

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

4. What are the three demands the seizers make of the Pikunis when they meet with General Sully?

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

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

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

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. 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?

10. What is strange and incomplete about the dream Mik-api has for three nights that confuses him?

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