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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Shepherd tell Much-Afraid she must learn on her journey?
(a) How to leap high and swiftly.
(b) How to grow the flowers of Love.
(c) The alphabet of the High Place.
(d) The alphabet of Love and develop hinds' feet.

2. What did Much-Afraid and her companions see in the desert?
(a) A trail to an oasis.
(b) Nothing except pyramids.
(c) The Spinx.
(d) A sand storm.

3. What does the Shepherd promise before he leaves Much-Afraid and her companions to travel alone in Chapter 7?
(a) He will be with her even though she won't see him.
(b) That when he sees she is having problems, he will help her.
(c) That whenever she calls, he will come.
(d) That if she learns to be independant, she won't need him.

4. What is The Water Song?
(a) It is words set to the sound of the water flowing down the hill.
(b) It is the words they heard the water singing, so they made up music to go with it.
(c) It is an ancient song sung for generations in the valley.
(d) It is a song everyone sings when they go to the well for water.

5. What did Much-Afraid find out when she went to the sheepfolds and asked if the Chief Shepherd was there?
(a) Nothing.
(b) That he was watching sheep on the other side of the mountain.
(c) That he was gone and had left the two undershepherds in charge.
(d) They did not know who the Chief Shepherd was.

6. Who did Much-Afraid see when she looked over the edge of the precipice?
(a) Resentment and Pride.
(b) Craven Fear and Self-Pity.
(c) Pride and Craven Fear.
(d) All five of her enemies.

7. When Pride catches up to Much-Afraid on the trail, what does he tell her about the Shepherd?
(a) That the Shepherd is going to make her a slave.
(b) That the Shepherd is in the Valley laughing about her trip.
(c) That the Shepherd is misleading her.
(d) That the Shepherd isn't who he says he is.

8. What appeared above the steep wall of rock?
(a) A row of flowers leading the way.
(b) A deer and a rabbit.
(c) A donkey to ride up the mountain path.
(d) A double rainbow.

9. What does the Shepherd reply when Much-Afraid asks him to take her all the way to the High Place?
(a) He has a lot of people who need His help getting to the High Place.
(b) She would not be able to keep up with him without hinds' feet.
(c) She would become too needy and dependent on him if He went with her.
(d) He could but she would never develop hinds' feet.

10. Why didn't Mrs. Valiant admonish Much-Afraid for being frightened?
(a) Because no one but the Shepherd himself can help her.
(b) All of the answers are correct.
(c) Because Much-Afraid can't stand up to her relatives.
(d) Because Much-Afraid is one of the fearlings.

11. What did Mrs. Valiant do with Much-Afraid after the Fearlings left?
(a) They had a cup of tea.
(b) They went to Mrs. Valiant's house.
(c) They hurried out of the cottage.
(d) They went to the Shepherd.

12. What was named Bearing-the-Cost, that some called "Forgiveness?"
(a) A blood-red flower.
(b) A golden flower.
(c) Some moss.
(d) Nothing.

13. Who tried to prevent her from making the journey to the High Places?
(a) The Fearling Family.
(b) Her neighbor.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her aunt.

14. When Much-Afraid called out to the Shepherd, what did He do to the four attackers?
(a) He threw Pride down into the water and the other three ran away.
(b) He threw them all down into the water.
(c) He imprisoned them in the pyramids.
(d) He captured them and sent them back to the valley.

15. When Much-Afraid looked in her heart in Chapter 8, what did she see was happening to the seed the Shepherd had planted there?
(a) It was still there, unchanged.
(b) It was growing into a thorny bush.
(c) It had taken root and had leaves, plus a small spot she hoped was a bud.
(d) It was burning inside of her, causing pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. After warding off Bitterness, where did the Shepherd take Much-Afraid and her companions before leaving them again?

2. Where does the Shepherd live?

3. After seeing what was growing in her heart, Much-Afraid built another altar and laid what upon it?

4. When the Shepherd takes Much-Afraid into the pyramid what does he show her?

5. Why was Pride chosen for his designated task in the chapter, "Encounters with Pride"?

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