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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Dawn Runner.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is caught in a small snare trap that the old man has set at the beginning of the story?
(a) Fox
(b) Mouse
(c) Sparrow
(d) Snake

2. Abel dreams of the time he had gone down to the river with __________ to go shooting.
(a) Mariano
(b) Vidal
(c) Francisco
(d) Ben

3. Tosamah's grandmother was ____________ eight or ten years after the surrender of the Kiowa.
(a) Dead
(b) Married
(c) Killed
(d) Born

4. When Carrie was four years old, she _________________, after her father left for good.
(a) Ran away
(b) Killed her mother
(c) Became depressed
(d) Died in the hospital

5. The Tai-me is the ___________ doll that belonged to the Kiowas from the time the man found the special creature.
(a) Land Fertility
(b) Rain Dance
(c) Water Dance
(d) Sun Dance

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the man at the party who continued to insult Abel, even though it was not directly?

2. Abel dressed his grandfather in bright ceremonial __________ as he prepared his body.

3. For how many days did Abel stay drunk after the incident at the party with his co-workers?

4. How much is Abel paid to cut the wood that Mrs. Martin St. John asks him to cut up for her?

5. Francisco and Abel went to the ________ where some old people had already gathered and begun to sing.

(see the answer key)

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