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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Joe Meek come to visit Jim?
(a) He enjoys Sally's cooking.
(b) The other men told Joe that Jim had stolen a horse.
(c) He has heard there is trouble at one of the Indian camps.
(d) He wants to visit with Jim about trapping.

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

3. What are the Indians doing when they "call out" the children?
(a) Playing a game in which children are challenged to follow an older person.
(b) Playing a game in which children and elders throw objects at each other.
(c) Teaching children to trail animals in hunting.
(d) Teaching the children to lead others in the tribe.

4. How does Mr. Rutledge advise Jonnie when Jim starts shirking his chores?
(a) To work harder at getting Jonnie to become less like the Indians.
(b) To take food away from Jim when he doesn't do his chores.
(c) To leave him to his own devices.
(d) To confront him about his responsibilities.

5. What rumor spreads about the lone Indian rider?
(a) He could pronounce magic curses on people.
(b) He could fly.
(c) He couldn't be harmed by bullets.
(d) He is invisible.

6. What is Jim's "medicine song"?
(a) The National Anthem.
(b) The Lord's Prayer.
(c) The twenty-third Psalm.
(d) A song his Indian mother taught him.

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

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

9. 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 okay to steal it because the Indians stole it from someone else.
(c) He didn't actually steal it because he planned all along to put it back.
(d) It was wrong to steal it.

10. How does Jonnie's attitude change after seeing Jim's scars?
(a) He begins to have more respect for Jim's beleifs about land.
(b) He begins to feel sorry for Jim.
(c) He beleives it might be best if Jim goes back to the Indians.
(d) He begins to understand Jim's empathy toward the Indians.

11. Why does Sally keep the braids?
(a) She says they will remind the family of Jim's life before he came back to them.
(b) She says they will remind Daniel of what Jim was like when he first returned.
(c) She says they will remind Jim not to return to the Indians.
(d) She says they will remind her of her struggle to accept Jim.

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

13. Which of the following conflicts is NOT resolved by the end of the book?
(a) Sally has come to accept some of Jim's differences.
(b) Joe Meek has solved the mystery of what happened at the Indian camp the night Jim stole the horse.
(c) Jim has decided that the best place for him is with his family.
(d) Jim has come to a conclusion about his identity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim feel when the cabin is finished?

2. What does Mr. Rutledge believe about Jim?

3. What identity crisis has Jim been struggling with?

4. Which of these does Jim tell Tom?

5. What does Jim challenge Daniel to do?

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