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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fishtail's wife make for Angeline?
(a) A bookbag.
(b) A necklace.
(c) A coat.
(d) A dress.

2. Which of the following does NOT represent the connection between One Horn and the family?
(a) Respectful.
(b) Generous.
(c) Compassionate.
(d) Serendipitous.

3. Who kills One Horn in order to feed the family?
(a) Fishtail.
(b) Deydey.
(c) Omakayas.
(d) Albert.

4. Throughout the winter, Deydey's friends visit to talk about __________________.
(a) Building cabins for new arrivals.
(b) Moving west to escape white people.
(c) Making new traps.
(d) Going ice fishing on the lake.

5. What is done with the items touched by the man who died from smallpox?
(a) They are buried.
(b) They are thrown into the lake.
(c) They are bleached.
(d) They are burned.

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

7. 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 freshly dead deer.
(d) A bear trap.

8. What does the family have for supper when Old Tallow returns?
(a) Beaver.
(b) Rabbit.
(c) Squirrel.
(d) Crow.

9. In her dream, what does Nokomis envision the deer One Horn doing?
(a) Grazing in the meadow.
(b) Standing proudly on a mountain top.
(c) Playing with her doe.
(d) Offering itself as food for the family.

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

11. What do Ten Snow and Angeline spend hours doing?
(a) Making moccasins.
(b) Scraping hides.
(c) Beadwork.
(d) Making rugs.

12. Which of Omakayas' family members dies in her arms?
(a) Mama.
(b) Pinch.
(c) Neewo.
(d) Angeline.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stares at Omakayas as she tends the fire?

2. Nokomis tells the story of how the world was created with the help of a small _______________.

3. What is a cache?

4. Which person in the village has also died from smallpox?

5. What does Pinch admit to Deydey?

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