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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Jim believe the Indians will do to him?
(a) They will kill him, quickly and painlessly.
(b) They will let him go.
(c) They will enslave him.
(d) They will kill him, slowly and painfully.

6. What does Jim teach Daniel while they are setting traps?
(a) How to keep people from getting in the traps.
(b) How to be sure an animal doesn't detect the trap.
(c) How to remember where traps are located.
(d) How to keep traps from getting old and rusted.

7. 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 asks Daniel to help him practice.
(d) He makes Daniel write his name over and over until he memorizes how to write it.

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

9. 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 no longer feels any loyalty to his Indian family.
(c) He realizes he can't leave Daniel to sort through his emotions alone.
(d) He realizes Jonnie needs his help building the homestead.

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

11. What does Jim want to do for Jonnie?
(a) Get him a mule.
(b) Teach him how to ride a horse.
(c) Get him a horse.
(d) Teach him how to ride a mule.

12. 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.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim foresee for the future of the region.

2. What does Jonnie accuse Jim of?

3. What do Jonnie and Sally do when Jim returns?

4. When Jim steals the horse, what does he plan to do with it?

5. Why does Joe Meek come to visit Jim?

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