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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. How far behind Fast Horse is Fools Crow?

2. What do Owl Child and Fast Horse do to the band of Napikwans in Chapter 25?

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

4. What does Fast Horse do when he and Owl Child arrive at the war lodge?

5. What does Owl Child do at the ranch?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the significance of the thrashing wings that Fools Crow hears when he wakes in the woman's dwelling?

4. Describe what Fools Crow sees or does not see in the water of the place he is lead to in his dream.

5. What advice and hope does Feather Woman give to Fools Crow after he sees the designs on the skin come to life?

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

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

8. What does Fast Horse find in the war lodge while Owl Child stays with the horses, and how does he know who it is?

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the irony and the tragedy of Yellow Kidney's death. How do you think the story would have been affected if Yellow Kidney had not died in this way?

Essay Topic 2

A minor theme of betrayal was also intertwined in this novel. What constitutes betrayal, and how is this portrayed in Fools Crow? In what ways do the Pikunis as a people feel betrayed? In what ways do individual characters in the story feel betrayed? Was there or can there be any restitution for betrayal?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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