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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In color balls of light do some souls travel?
(a) Gold.
(b) Yellow.
(c) White.
(d) Silver.

2. To whom was Four Souls a bad wife?
(a) Shaawano.
(b) Miimi.
(c) Biskane.
(d) Giishkaatig.

3. In Chapter 1, what grew from the blood a woman spilled when giving birth?
(a) Chokecherries.
(b) Gooseberries.
(c) Huckleberries.
(d) Cloudberries.

4. At the end of Chapter 4, what does Polly Elizabeth sip?
(a) Chicken broth.
(b) Beef tea.
(c) Peppermint tea.
(d) Chamomile tea.

5. In Chapter 1 when the house was being built, how many sandhill cranes were shot to eat?
(a) Nearly 100.
(b) 90.
(c) About 150.
(d) 120.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times in the night did John Mauser's man-nurse have to change his nightclothes and bed linens?

2. When Under the Ground threw out her daughter's soul, into what animal did it go?

3. What type of doorknob is on Mauser's bedroom door?

4. What is the name of the doctor from Chicago who comes to see Mauser in Chapter 4?

5. When Four Souls' mother was buried alive in a birch-bark covering connected to the world only by a breathing straw, how many days and night was she there?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mauser say that his spirit is meant to serve Fleur?

2. Why does Polly Elizabeth believe it is a shame that she and Placide are not one person?

3. Why did some, like Nanapush, surrender to the cross and the Jesuits?

4. How does Fleur prepare to kill Mauser?

5. In Chapter 4, what does Nanapush know about Mauser's history?

6. How is Mauser waiting for Fleur when she comes to kill him?

7. How does Polly Elizabeth end up caring for Fleur during her pregnancy?

8. What was the making of Under the Ground?

9. What affliction takes Nanapush's people?

10. How does Fleur travel to the iron road?

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