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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 through 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jim referring to when he uses the word "bourgeways"?
(a) Whites.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Horses.
(d) Indians.

2. How will the group cross the Columbia River?
(a) They will put their wagons on rafts, and float fifty miles down river.
(b) They will go fifty miles down the river to a bridge.
(c) They will take their wagons across one at a time on the ferry.
(d) They will ford the river.

3. What does Jim plan to do with the horse after the men all tell him that he shouldn't have stolen it?
(a) Put it back in the same place he found it.
(b) Kill it so noone else will know he stole it.
(c) Personally hand it over to its owner.
(d) Keep it.

4. Who does Jim often take with him when he slips away from his work?
(a) Mr. Rutledge.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Bad Medicine.
(d) Jonnie.

5. How does Jim feel about living in the cabin?
(a) Ashamed of his white family.
(b) Proud and happy.
(c) Closed in and panicky.
(d) Free and satisfied.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of animal attacks Jim when he is a boy?

2. What does Jim see in the Dalles that he hasn't seen for nine years?

3. What do Jim and Sally argue about after Jim swims across the river?

4. What had Jim planned to do before he reunited with Jonnie?

5. Why does Daniel become unhappy with Jim?

(see the answer key)

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