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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Daniel doing when Jim finds him?
(a) Trying to run away from the Indians.
(b) Tanning hides.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Sleeping.

2. How does Mr. Rutledge assure Jonnie?
(a) Tells him that all families argue sometimes.
(b) Tells him that Jim knows how to keep Daniel safe.
(c) Tells him that Daniel loves his home so he won't run away.
(d) Tells him that Jim can write an X instead of signing his name.

3. What does Jim realize when Tom talks to Mr. Rutledge?
(a) Tom doesn't know how to read.
(b) Tom is unable to trap by himself.
(c) Tom wants to join an Indian tribe.
(d) Tom is incredibly lonely.

4. Which one of these is a disturbing memory that Jim has about the Indians?
(a) The Indians stealing from each other.
(b) A woman who kills her child.
(c) A man who with a necklace of scalps.
(d) His Indian mother beating him.

5. What do Jonnie and Sally do when Jim returns?
(a) Avoid him.
(b) Continue their argument with him.
(c) Treat him more harshly than ever.
(d) Act as if nothing happened.

6. What have some of the other men told Joe about Jim's role in retrieving the cattle?
(a) They say Jim endangered all of them by stealing a horse.
(b) They say they couldn't have gotten the cattle back without Jim's help.
(c) They say Jim was able to trick the Indians because he is part Indian.
(d) They say Jim endangered all of them by trying to put the horse back.

7. Why does Jim believe the thieves are Indian, not white?
(a) They didn't put weight down on their boots like white men would.
(b) He finds an arrow in a fencepost.
(c) They left bare footprints as well as bootprints.
(d) He finds the boots and clothes they left behind in the woods.

8. When Jim steals the horse, what does he plan to do with it?
(a) Keep it for himself.
(b) Give it to Daniel.
(c) Keep it only for a while then give it back to the Indians.
(d) Give it to Jonnie.

9. What does Daniel ask Jim to teach him?
(a) How to throw a knife.
(b) How to set a trap.
(c) How to shoot a bow and arrow.
(d) How to kill a grizzly bear.

10. What does Jonnie accuse Jim of after he runs out of the house?
(a) Trying to find an opportunity to run away.
(b) Trying to convert Daniel to the Indian's religion.
(c) Dishonoring their mother.
(d) Dishonoring their father.

11. Where did Daniel learning writing and arithmetic?
(a) At a one-room school house.
(b) At home, from his father.
(c) At home, from his mother.
(d) At home, from his sister.

12. What offer does Meek make?
(a) He offers to become a trapper with Jim in the mountains.
(b) He offers to pardon Jim for stealing the horse.
(c) He offers Jonnie a deputy job.
(d) He offers Jim a deputy job.

13. What convinces Jim he should stay with his family?
(a) He realizes he can't leave Daniel to sort through his emotions alone.
(b) He realizes he wants to stay to become the deputy sheriff.
(c) He realizes Jonnie needs his help building the homestead.
(d) He realizes he no longer feels any loyalty to his Indian family.

14. What does Sally tell Jim when he returns to the cabin?
(a) She tells him she wishes he would move into the cabin with the family.
(b) She tells him her opinion about his stealing the horse.
(c) She admits she has been nagging him about things that don't really matter.
(d) She berates him for endangering himself and others.

15. What does Jim believe the Indians will do to him?
(a) They will enslave him.
(b) They will let him go.
(c) They will kill him, slowly and painfully.
(d) They will kill him, quickly and painlessly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jonnie's attitude change after seeing Jim's scars?

2. How does Jim feel about living in the cabin?

3. How does Jonnie defend Jim's right to wear an Eagle feather?

4. How does Jonnie help Jim deal with his emotions?

5. What does Jim realize after killing the Indian and returning the horse?

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