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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Jonnie accuse Jim of?
(a) That he is leaving because he is afraid Meek will find out he killed an Indian.
(b) That he is leaving because of the way Sally has treated him.
(c) That he is leaving just because he hates farmwork.
(d) That he is leaving to run away from a problem.

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

11. Who, or what, is the antagonist in the book?
(a) The changing culture of the West.
(b) Jim's identity and cultural confusion.
(c) Jonnie and Sally.
(d) The Indians who try to kill Jim and Daniel.

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

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

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

15. Who throws pebbles at Jim?
(a) Sally.
(b) Mr. Rutledge.
(c) Jonnie.
(d) Tom Rivers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have some of the other men told Joe about Jim's role in retrieving the cattle?

2. What is Jonnie worried about in chapter nine?

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

4. Why does Jim believe the thieves are Indian, not white?

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

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