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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. Where did Yellow Kidney hide that was a fulfillment of White Man's Dog's dream?
2. Why is Fool's Crow uncomfortable with his new name?
3. Whose boastful recklessness worries Yellow Kidney because it could bring trouble to the raiding party's success?
4. What structure does White Man's Dog enter in his dream?
5. Who would Red Paint and White Man's Dog like to give the honor of naming the baby to?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the war party react to the solar eclipse on the fourth day out?
2. What troubling dream does Eagle Ribs relate to the raiding party as they wait for Fast Horse and Yellow Kidney to catch up?
3. What happens when Yellow Kidney and the raiding party try to find the stream from Fast Horse's dream?
4. 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?
5. Boss Ribs asks Fools Crow what changed his son. What does Fools Crow tell him?
6. Who are the seizers and why have they come to talk with the Lone Eaters?
7. Why does White Man's Dog think that Yellow Kidney's disappearance and Fast Horse's dream may be related, and what does he do about it?
8. 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?
9. White Man's Dog was not with Yellow Kidney in the heart of the Crow camp, so why does he feel responsible for Yellow Kidney's capture and mutilation?
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
Explore the theme of relationships within the context of the novel, Fools Crow. How did the relationship between Fools Crow and Fast Horse develop and change? How did the relationship between Yellow Kidney and his family develop and change? How did the relationship between the Napikwan and the Pikunis develop and change?
Essay Topic 2
Fast Horse did not choose to follow the path of the Beaver Medicine. Fools Crow did not become bitter with the Napikwan and want to follow Owl Child. How do you think the story would have been different if Fast Horse was the protagonist who stayed with the Lone Eaters, and Fools Crow were the antagonist who challenged him?
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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