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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color horse does Owl Child sit on?

2. What do Red Paint and White Man's Dog plan to name their baby?

3. In the beginning of Chapter 7, three riders enter the Pikunis camp riding on what?

4. Why can't White Man's Dog tell about Fast Horse's dream and vow as he would like?

5. What does White Man's Dog sing as he rides into Bull Shield's camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the seizers and why have they come to talk with the Lone Eaters?

2. What factors concern Red Paint that cause her to plead with White Man's dog not to go with the war party, and how does White Man's Dog respond?

3. In Mik-api's dream, what will Raven give to White Man's Dog if he finds and releases the wolverine caught in the Napikwan trap?

4. Describe White Man's Dog as he was introduced in the first two chapters of this book.

5. Why does Three Bears think the riders who enter the Lone Eater's camp at the beginning of Chapter 7 have probably stolen the horses they have with them?

6. What secret does Raven promise to keep for Fools Crow, and why?

7. Boss Ribs asks Fools Crow what changed his son. What does Fools Crow tell him?

8. Why does Heavy Shield Woman set a place for her missing husband at the meal she prepares for herself, her daughter and her two sons?

9. What is the purpose of the war party?

10. What techniques does the author use to introduce the reader to the Pikuni culture?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Point of view can change whole story. Most of the conflict with the Napikwan in this novel were from the perspective of the Pikunis. Certainly, the demands of the seizers, which were ultimately rejected by the Piknunis, were seen through the eyes of the Pikunis.

Revisit the meeting from which we received the three main seizer demands: General Sully, who was trying to negotiate an agreement that would guarantee the safety of his people. Write a scene within the fort with General Sully and his advisors as they discussed the problems and dangers they were experiencing with the Blackfoot and developing their list of demands.

Essay Topic 2

Foreshadowing was used extensively in the writing style used in the story of Fools Crow. Discuss the events, thoughts and feelings that happened to individual characters in their lives or in their dreams that were a foreshadowing of the difficulties that the Pikunis and the Napikwans would face, or of the impending devastation wrought by the plague of smallpox and its relationship to the theme of Loss and Change.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about how each of these conflict types are represented in the novel, Fools Crow. Does one of these emerge as the main conflict of the story, or are they all of equal importance?

a) Man vs. Man: he struggles against another person or group of people (usually against the antagonist, but not always).

b) Man vs. Self: two elements within himself struggle for mastery.

c) Man vs. Society: he struggles against society as a force, society being the rules, regulations, morals and/or beliefs common to a particular people.

d) Man vs. Nature: he struggles against forces of nature, such as storms, wind, fire, cold, heat, etc.

e) Man vs. Machine: he struggles against machines.

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