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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim challenge Daniel to do?
(a) Write Jim's and Jonnie's names.
(b) Write his own name and Jim's name.
(c) Write Sally's and Jim's names.
(d) Do a math problem and write his name.

2. What does Jim think when he sees wagons about to head down a steep hill?
(a) They will make it if they move very slowly.
(b) There is a chance they will make it, but they will probably crash at the bottom.
(c) It is an impossible task.
(d) They will only make it if Jim helps them.

3. What happens when Jonnie rides Jim's horse?
(a) The horse throws him off.
(b) He is too rough with the horse.
(c) He handles the horse well.
(d) He looses control and the horse goes too fast.

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

5. Which of the following has NOT changed by the end of the book?
(a) Jonnie's desire for Jim to be a part of the family.
(b) Sally's desire for Jim to cut his braids.
(c) Williamette Valley.
(d) Jim's attitude towards the farmwork.

6. 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) He finds the boots and clothes they left behind in the woods.
(d) They left bare footprints as well as bootprints.

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

8. Whose approval is Jim looking for the most when he signs his name?
(a) Tom River's.
(b) Jonnie's.
(c) The land surveyor's.
(d) Mr. Rutledge's.

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

10. What does Jim believe about stealing the horse?
(a) It was okay to steal it because Indians would just say he is "counting coup".
(b) It was wrong to steal it.
(c) He didn't actually steal it because he planned all along to put it back.
(d) It was okay to steal it because the Indians stole it from someone else.

11. Where does Jim sleep before he moves into the cabin?
(a) On the ground in the open air.
(b) In a grass hut.
(c) In a lodge made of skins.
(d) In a cave.

12. What does Sally tell Jim that prompts him to leave the house?
(a) That he should stop dressing "like a heathen."
(b) That all Indians are "savages".
(c) That his Indian mother is a "savage heathen".
(d) That Jim is just as "heathen" as his Indian family.

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

14. What does Jonnie want Jim to do?
(a) Become fully integrated into the family, leaving his Indian ways behind.
(b) Leave the family and go back to the Indians.
(c) Educate Daniel in the ways of the Indians.
(d) Stay in the family while retaining his Indian identity.

15. What does Jim realize after killing the Indian and returning the horse?
(a) He has betrayed his Indian family.
(b) He has accomplished a brave victory for his family by killing an Indian.
(c) He cares about what others think of him.
(d) He does not feel like an Indian or a white man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these causes Jim to have mixed emotions about the Indians?

2. Who, or what, is the antagonist in the book?

3. What does Jim realize when Tom talks to Mr. Rutledge?

4. What convinces Jim he should stay with his family?

5. What is Jim's reaction to his own childhood memories?

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