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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Jim to fear the Indians might retaliate against the settlers for his stealing the horse?
(a) Several Indians see him.
(b) An Indian boy sees him.
(c) An Indian woman sees him.
(d) An Indian brave see him.

2. What does Daniel intend to do when he runs away?
(a) Go back home to Missouri.
(b) Steal a horse like Jim did.
(c) Join an Indian tribe.
(d) Find Jim and live with him.

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

4. What does Mr. Rutledge believe about Jim?
(a) He is lazy.
(b) He will eventually go back to the Indians.
(c) He will probably never fit in with the family.
(d) He will eventually fit in with the family.

5. Which of these does Jim tell Tom?
(a) Sally doesn't like the Indians, so Jim has changed his lifestyle to suit her.
(b) Sally doesn't like the Indians but has come to tolerate Jim's lifestyle.
(c) Sally has learned to like the Indians, so she now tolerates Jim's lifestyle.
(d) Sally doesn't like the Indians, so she doesn't tolerate Jim's lifestyle.

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

7. 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) Personally hand it over to its owner.
(c) Kill it so noone else will know he stole it.
(d) Keep it.

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

9. Why does Jim decide he shouldn't return to trapping in the mountains?
(a) It's too dangerous because of the Indian war.
(b) He likes farming better than trapping.
(c) There isn't enough game in the mountains.
(d) He doesn't have a partner to trap with.

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

11. How does Jim feel when he sees the walls of the cabin?
(a) Ashamed.
(b) Proud.
(c) Excited.
(d) Trapped.

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

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

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

15. What is Jonnie worried about in chapter nine?
(a) That Daniel might run away.
(b) That Daniel might get hurt while learning the bow and arrow.
(c) That Jim doesn't know how to sign his name.
(d) That Sally will start an argument with Jim.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Joe Meek come to visit Jim?

2. What is Jonnie's concern about the trail?

3. Who is the first to suggest that Jim can track the cattle thieves?

4. How does Jonnie's excitement over getting land affect Jim?

5. Which of the following does Jim NOT do on his wild ride through the countryside?

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