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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 happens to the sun in the middle of the fourth day?

2. Does Fools Crow tell the Lone Eater Camp what he did to the Napikwan?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 13, how does Red Paint wake White Man's Dog?

4. Whose boastful recklessness worries Yellow Kidney because it could bring trouble to the raiding party's success?

5. What losses do the Pikunis suffer as a result of the battle at Bull Shield's camp?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when Yellow Kidney and the raiding party try to find the stream from Fast Horse's dream?

3. What troubling dream does Eagle Ribs relate to the raiding party as they wait for Fast Horse and Yellow Kidney to catch up?

4. When White Man's Dog tells his parents that he wants to take Red Paint as his wife, his father is concerned. Why is this?

5. Who does Yellow Kidney assign to the tasks that the raiding party will perform at the Crow camp?

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

7. Describe Fast Horse as he in introduced in the first two chapters of this book.

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

9. Where does Fast Horse decide to go upon his recovery, and why?

10. Describe Fast Horse's power dream in Chapter 3.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Today, many believe that our treatment of the Native Americans of this country was not fair. Do you think we treated the Blackfoot that were represented by this novel in a fair manner? Was everything about the treatment of the Native American unfair, or were there attempts to be fair? What has shifted our perceptions? Where do you stand on the issue?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the use of imagery in Fools Crow. How did it enrich the reading experience? How did it help to paint a mental picture of the Pikunis culture? What techniques of imagery were most prevalent, or do you think the majority of the imagery used was descriptive without the use of such literary devises as metaphore, simile, personification, anthropomorphism, alliteration and irony?

Essay Topic 3

Expound upon the theme of Change and Loss in the novel, Fools Crow. This is arguably the most recurrent theme in the book. Look at the theme as it relates to Fools Crow and the Lone Eaters, as it relates to Fast Horse and his association with Owl Child and his band, and as it relates to the Napikwans.

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