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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the intruder do at the dance?
(a) Plays a fiddle.
(b) Eats dinner.
(c) Dances with all the girls.
(d) Sits by the fire.

2. What is a cache?
(a) A pipe.
(b) A songbook.
(c) A covered pit.
(d) A long canoe.

3. What present does Ten Snow give to Omakayas?
(a) A beadwork kit.
(b) A headband.
(c) A bouquet of flowers.
(d) A belt.

4. How does the person in #140 put out the fire on his pants?
(a) Splashes down into a puddle.
(b) Sits in a bucket of water.
(c) Rolls on the grass.
(d) Runs to the creek.

5. What happens in the spring that the family looks forward to?
(a) New baby animals.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Maple sugar time.
(d) Fresh vegetables.

6. What does Old Tallow do with the nasty yellow dog that attacks Omakayas?
(a) Puts him in the barn.
(b) Puts him in a pen.
(c) Ties him up.
(d) Kills him.

7. What does Mama do with the food when it is dried?
(a) She buries it behind the house.
(b) She stores it in barrels.
(c) She puts it in cupboards in the house.
(d) She puts in in the ice house.

8. What is Zeegwun?
(a) Snow.
(b) Owl.
(c) Water.
(d) Spring.

9. What does Andeg bring to Omakayas?
(a) Twigs and bark.
(b) Seeds.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Berries.

10. The spirit that Omakayas sees in her vision represents what?
(a) The spirit of nature as a whole.
(b) The spirit of her own mother.
(c) The spirit of the earth.
(d) The spirit of the mother bear.

11. What does Pinch find in the woods which he intends to claim as his own?
(a) Maple syrup jugs.
(b) A little cabin.
(c) A bear trap.
(d) A freshly dead deer.

12. What disease does the intruder have?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Diptheria.
(d) German measles.

13. Who sets the seat of his pants on fire?
(a) Albert.
(b) Deydey.
(c) Pinch.
(d) Fishtail.

14. The family travels to the woods to ________________.
(a) Look for herbs.
(b) Cut firewood.
(c) Shoot wild game.
(d) Tap the maple trees.

15. Omakayas later thinks that One Horn knew that ______________________.
(a) The winter would be a hard one.
(b) It was time to move south.
(c) He was going to save her family.
(d) She was his friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nokomis encourage Omakayas to do?

2. Omakayas rises from her depression when _______________ visits.

3. Which of the following does NOT represent the connection between One Horn and the family?

4. Whom does Omakayas listen to while he/she talks in his/her sleep?

5. One day Nokomis tells Omakayas and the other women a story of an encounter with the spirit of __________________.

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