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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jim's reaction to his own childhood memories?
(a) The memories convince him that Sally is right about many things.
(b) He tells the memories to Daniel.
(c) He fights them.
(d) He tries to remember more.

2. 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) He finds the boots and clothes they left behind in the woods.
(d) They didn't put weight down on their boots like white men would.

3. What does Jim realize after talking with the man from the wagon train?
(a) Some of the whites' ways of thinking are better than the Indians' ways of thinking.
(b) He's leaving everything this man is working so hard to reach.
(c) This man will be harming Jim's Indian family if he settles in the valley.
(d) He's leaving his family to fend for themselves against the Indians in the area.

4. What does being "called out" sometimes include?
(a) Swimming in very cold water.
(b) Sitting and talking for hours.
(c) Hunting at night.
(d) Throwing knives.

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

6. How does Jonnie help Jim deal with his emotions?
(a) He suggests some days that Jim go swimming instead of doing farmwork.
(b) He gives Jim the easiest farmwork to do.
(c) He gives Jim the most challenging farmwork to do.
(d) He suggests Jim go hunting some days instead of doing farmwork.

7. How does Jim deal with the two guards?
(a) He has his dog attack both guards.
(b) He sneaks around the guards.
(c) He shoots both of them with a bow and arrow,
(d) He has his dog attack one while he shoots the other with his bow and arrow.

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

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 doesn't have a partner to trap with.
(c) There isn't enough game in the mountains.
(d) He likes farming better than trapping.

10. How does Jonnie defend Jim's right to wear an Eagle feather?
(a) He says it's similar to their father's war medal.
(b) He says it's similar to the hat his father gave him as a memento.
(c) He says it is a part of who Jim is as a person.
(d) He says it's similar to the cross that Sally wears.

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

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

13. Why does Jim throw pebbles at Daniel?
(a) Jim is angry at Daniel.
(b) Daniel challenges Jim to see if he can hit him with pebbles.
(c) Throwing is an essential part of Daniel being "called out".
(d) They are playing and Jim tells Daniel he has to "dodge bullets".

14. What have some of the other men told Joe about Jim's role in retrieving the cattle?
(a) They say they couldn't have gotten the cattle back without Jim's help.
(b) They say Jim was able to trick the Indians because he is part Indian.
(c) They say Jim endangered all of them by stealing a horse.
(d) They say Jim endangered all of them by trying to put the horse back.

15. Why does Daniel become unhappy with Jim?
(a) He doesn't like the fact that Jim stole a horse.
(b) He doesn't like the fact that Jim killed an Indian.
(c) Jim is spending a lot more time in the fields with Jonnie.
(d) Jim has moved into the cabin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim plan to do with the horse after the men all tell him that he shouldn't have stolen it?

2. What does Daniel intend to do when he runs away?

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

4. What rumor spreads about the lone Indian rider?

5. How does Daniel feel about Tom?

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