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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. When Yellow Kidney leaves, what does he hope for his wife?
(a) He hopes that Fools Crow will take care of her.
(b) He hopes that Boss Ribs will take her as a second wife.
(c) He hopes that she will miss him.
(d) He hopes she will be happy.

2. What time of day does Fools Crow choose to ride to the ranch house?
(a) At noon.
(b) In the morning.
(c) At night, after the moon has risen.
(d) At dusk.

3. 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.

4. How should Fools Crow dress for this trip, according to Nitsokan?
(a) He should dress in his ceremonial robes.
(b) He should dress like a beggar.
(c) He should dress for winter.
(d) He should dress like a warior.

5. 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 he smoked the pipe and swore his tongue was true and not forked.
(c) Because Fools Crow vouched for him as a fellow healer.
(d) They would not trust any information from any Napikwan.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How do the Pikuni leaders feel about meeting with the seizer chiefs?

4. Which of Boss Ribs' children die of the white scab disease?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What happens when Owl Child spots whiskey runners?

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

4. How does Fools Crow help Red Paint's youngest brother conquer his fears and nightmares about the rabid wolf who bit him?

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

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

7. What is Fools Crow thinking and feeling as he looks at the scalp of Bull Shied?

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

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

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