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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pauline call the marks left by the forceps on Marie's head?
(a) Signs that the baby wasn't ready
(b) Devil's thumbs
(c) Horns
(d) Angel kisses

2. What other news does Father Damien bring?
(a) Pukwan is forcing the Pillagers out
(b) The Pillagers owe money to keep their land
(c) Nector has to go live in town
(d) Moses is dead

3. Who is the father of Pauline's child?
(a) Nanapush
(b) The lake man
(c) Napolean
(d) Eli

4. What is the poison that afflicts the reservation?
(a) White men's money
(b) Small pox
(c) Alcohol
(d) Influenza

5. What does Bernadette do when her children marry outside her wishes?
(a) Gets a potion from Moses
(b) Kicks the children off her land
(c) Asks Fleur to curse them
(d) Move to town with Marie

6. What does Margaret suggest as a means to save the Pillager land?
(a) Capturing the lake man
(b) Selling cranberry bark to a tonic dealer
(c) Selling Nanapush's land
(d) Working for the lumberjacks

7. Who attacks Nanapush and Margaret on their way home from church?
(a) Eli Kashpaw
(b) Boy Lazarre and Clarence Morrissey
(c) Pauline
(d) Napolean

8. What does Fleur place in the tree above the box containing her dead baby?
(a) Lake weeds
(b) A charm from Moses
(c) Her black umbrella
(d) A cross

9. Where do Pauline and Fleur go when they leave the Pillager cabin?
(a) Argus
(b) The land of the dead
(c) Into the lake
(d) The convent

10. What causes the Pillager baldness?
(a) A curse by Pauline
(b) A potion from Moses
(c) Old age
(d) Fleur and Margaret having their hair cut off

11. What does Bernadette do to help Pauline's baby be born?
(a) Use makeshift forceps
(b) Fetch Nanapush
(c) Push on Pauline's stomach
(d) Fetch Father Damien

12. Who pronounces Pauline white and able to serve in the convent?
(a) The government agent
(b) Sister Anne
(c) God
(d) Father Damien

13. Who raises Marie?
(a) Nanapush
(b) Fleur
(c) Margaret
(d) Bernadette

14. Where does Fleur go in the middle of the night?
(a) To Sophie
(b) To Nanapush's cabin
(c) To the convent
(d) To the lake

15. What does the white doctor want to do with Lulu's feet?
(a) Put salve on them
(b) Heat them in hot water
(c) Bind them
(d) Amputate

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Father Damien want Nanapush to do?

2. Who interrupts Nanapush's healing ceremony for Fleur?

3. What does Nanapush tease Pauline about?

4. What does Fleur do when she learns what happened to Margaret?

5. What does Nanapush do for Eli to find his way home?

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