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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. On the trail the soldiers take from camp, what sign does True Son see, symbolizing his will to go home?
(a) An animal that has died in the path.
(b) An arrow from his father's bow.
(c) An albino deer.
(d) A tree, with one live and one dead branch.

2. Cuyloga does not want True Son to struggle for what reason?
(a) Cuyloga does not want True Son anymore.
(b) True Son will adjust to white life more easily this way.
(c) The white man might scalp True Son.
(d) Cuyloga is planning a rescue mission.

3. True Son decides that the English people are so pale for what reason?
(a) Because of the way their houses are built.
(b) Because they are lazy and do not work outside.
(c) Because they always wear hats.
(d) Because they are not an original people.

4. What does Mrs. Butler say that True Son will have to do if he does not say the name that he was born with?
(a) Stay locked in the dungeon.
(b) Take a whipping.
(c) Stay locked in her room.
(d) Sit in the corner.

5. What made True Son forget about killing himself?
(a) Thinking of his father's reaction to the news.
(b) Half Arrow's cheerful company.
(c) He was too afraid to die.
(d) Getting caught up in ways to escape instead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Little Crane thinks that white people act strange for what reason?

2. What is the name of True Son's Indian father?

3. What is True Son's little brother's name?

4. Why does Little Crane think that the Great Being gave the whites a Good Book but not the Indians?

5. What did the Butlers originally name True Son?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare/contrast Del Hardy's reaction to seeing Fort Pitt to True Son's reaction to the same.

2. Del describes Colonel Bouquet as the peacefullest man but mad as a wolverine. What is meant by this?

3. True Son envisions how his funeral will be when he kills himself. Describe his vision.

4. Uncle George tells True Son that they have taken the law into their own hands for what reason?

5. What did the spell that Cuyloga placed on True Son do?

6. What is the Peshtank story?

7. How does Uncle Wilse react to being asked if a man who murdered his wife and children is his brother?

8. What are some of the things that the white soldiers do that True Son, Little Crane, and Half Arrow think are strange?

9. True Son is surprised that he must go with the whites, even though he know that his tribe must give up all white prisoners. Why is he surprised?

10. The guards are amazed at the outpouring of love and grief for the whites that were given up. Although they are astonished at this, what is it that they can't get over? Why do you think that it surprised them?

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