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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Daniel feel about Tom?
(a) He admires Tom because he is a mountain man.
(b) He is nervous around Tom because Tom is so wild looking.
(c) He is jealous of the attention Tom gives to Jonnie and Sally.
(d) He is jealous of the time Jim spends with Tom.

2. What rumor spreads about the lone rider's horse?
(a) He is invisible.
(b) He is made of fire.
(c) His mane consists of white flames.
(d) He has wings.

3. What do Jim and Sally argue about after Jim swims across the river?
(a) Sally says Jim should have stayed on the Rutledge's side of the river.
(b) Sally thinks Jim is setting a bad example for Daniel.
(c) Sally wants Jim to let them know where he is going.
(d) Sally thinks it is the wrong time of year to be swimming.

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

5. What identity crisis has Jim been struggling with?
(a) He feels like an Indian even though he is white.
(b) He feels like he should be head of the family since he is the oldest.
(c) He feels like a mountain man even though he is a farmer.
(d) He is starting to feel like a white man even though he is Indian.

6. How does Jonnie's excitement over getting land affect Jim?
(a) Jim doesn't understand Jonnie's excitement because he believes land can't really be owned.
(b) Jim is so disgusted with Jonnie's excitement that he wants to leave immediately.
(c) Jim catches up in his excitement and helps with the cabin for several days.
(d) Jim is unaffected by Jonnie's excitement.

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

8. What is Jim's reaction to his own childhood memories?
(a) He fights them.
(b) The memories convince him that Sally is right about many things.
(c) He tells the memories to Daniel.
(d) He tries to remember more.

9. Why is Jim avoiding work?
(a) He believes Jonnie should do all the work because it's his farm.
(b) He feels like the work is beneath him.
(c) He is having an identity crisis.
(d) Jonnie is giving him too much work.

10. How do the men convince Jim that fighting the Indians is not the best way to retrieve the cattle?
(a) They say the Indians will retaliate against the settlers if they try to fight them.
(b) They convince Jim that fighting would cost the lives of many of the Indians.
(c) They say they will probably lose if they try to fight the Indians.
(d) They are afraid some of their own men will get hurt or killed in a fight.

11. Who is the first to suggest that Jim can track the cattle thieves?
(a) Sally Keath.
(b) Mr. Rutledge.
(c) Sam Mullins.
(d) Joe Meek.

12. How does Jim practice signing his name?
(a) He finds where Daniel has written his name on some paper and uses that to practice.
(b) He has Daniel write his name on a piece of bark and uses that to practice.
(c) He makes Daniel write his name over and over until he memorizes how to write it.
(d) He asks Daniel to help him practice.

13. What is Jim's response to Jonnie's question about whether he is homesick?
(a) He says he is, but admits to himself that he is not.
(b) He denies it, and knows he is speaking the truth.
(c) He says he is, and knows he is speaking the truth.
(d) He denies it, but admits to himself that he is.

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

15. What does Jim tell the man from the wagon train about Willamette Valley?
(a) It will be very dangerous because of the wild animals.
(b) It will be very dangerous because of the Indians.
(c) It will be everything he's expecting.
(d) There are already too many white settlers there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sally do with Jim's braids and feather?

2. Where does Jim sleep before he moves into the cabin?

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

4. What does Jonnie need to do next to get ready for the next season's crops?

5. Why does Jim throw pebbles at Daniel?

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