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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 Fast Horse when the woman opens the door?

2. Who says, "You Fast Horse, you have become the heartless insect, for you would betray your own people"?

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

4. What do Fast Horse and Owl Child do to the Napikwan wagons and oxen?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. A white healer comes to the Lone Eaters' camp to warn of the smallpox. Why would the Pikunis believe anything a white man has to say?

3. 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?

4. How is Yellow Kidney's body delivered back to his people?

5. When the Pikunis chiefs meet for council, what do they decide to do about the white healer's warning and the seizers' demands?

6. Even though the Lone Eaters trust this white healer, why don't they agree to follow his advice?

7. Why doesn't Fast Horse return to the Lone Eaters himself?

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

9. What happens after killing the whiskey runners that shows that Fast Horse may be changing and becoming concerned for his people after all?

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

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

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

Explore the theme of Dreams in Fools Crow. Did their belief and faith in dreams enrich their lives or limit and endanger their lives? Were they helpful in dealing with the Napikwan? Were they helpful in dealing with the white scab disease? What would the story have been like if there had been no dreams?

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