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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 through 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jim stop a man from shooting his dog?
(a) He politely asks the man not to shoot his dog.
(b) He kills the man who is trying to shoot his dog.
(c) He shoves the man's hand, causing him to miss.
(d) He knocks the man down, causing him to miss.

2. What does Jim see in the Dalles that he hasn't seen for nine years?
(a) Indians with scalps.
(b) Lots of Indians.
(c) A mule.
(d) Lots of white people.

3. Why did Jonnie and his family decide to travel west?
(a) They are running from the law.
(b) Jonnie's father died, and they lost their farm.
(c) They wanted to mine for gold.
(d) Jonnie's father heard there was free land in the West.

4. What do we learn from the first four chapters about Jim's physical appearance?
(a) He looks skinny and weak.
(b) He looks overweight.
(c) He looks like an Indian.
(d) He looks like a white man.

5. Jim struggles with divided loyalties between______________.
(a) Tom Rivers and Mr. Rutledge.
(b) His mother and his father.
(c) The Crow and the Sioux.
(d) The whites and the Indians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes Jim to his family?

2. Who does Jim run away with at age eleven?

3. What does Jim steal from one of the Indians when he leaves the tribe?

4. What is Jim referring to when he uses the word "bourgeways"?

5. What age is Jim when he leaves the Indians?

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