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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 long does Nitsokan challenge Fast Horse to travel without stopping?
2. Why won't the power help him now?
3. To what does Yellow Kidney liken his life to?
4. How do we know that Fast Horse is finally beginning to show some honor?
5. What does Fools Crow see when the ranch comes into view?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is strange and incomplete about the dream Mik-api has for three nights that confuses him?
2. Describe the devastation in the Lone Eaters camp after thirteen days of the small pox disease.
3. When the Pikunis chiefs meet for council, what do they decide to do about the white healer's warning and the seizers' demands?
4. What does Fast Horse find in the war lodge while Owl Child stays with the horses, and how does he know who it is?
5. How does the author introduce hope into the devastation that has forced the Lone Eaters to begin the journey toward the Sand Hills that gives this book its bitter-sweet ending?
6. What happens after killing the whiskey runners that shows that Fast Horse may be changing and becoming concerned for his people after all?
7. Describe what Fools Crow sees or does not see in the water of the place he is lead to in his dream.
8. How is Yellow Kidney's body delivered back to his people?
9. What happens to Yellow Kidney while he is taking shelter in the war lodge, and does he see it coming?
10. How are Running Fisher and Kills-close-to-the-lake related and what is their current relationship?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
Discuss the phrase, "the price of freedom" as it would relate to the story of Fools Crow. Who is free in this story? Who is not free? Who is losing freedom? What are the Pikunis willing to do to preserve their freedom? What are the Napikwans willing to do to preserve their freedom?
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