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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Recalling Old Skills.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the younger women do for the old women?
(a) Pull their possessions to campsites.
(b) Clean their campsites.
(c) Cook their food.
(d) Sew their clothing.

2. What does Chi'idzigyaak's daughter give her as she leaves?
(a) A moose hide.
(b) Babiche.
(c) A hatchet.
(d) Dried fish.

3. How do the women soften the wood?
(a) Boiling it.
(b) Chewing it.
(c) Cutting it in thin pieces.
(d) Stretching it.

4. Why do the old women fear their own people?
(a) The People are ruthless.
(b) The People had broken their trust.
(c) The People are cannibals.
(d) The People are desperately hungry.

5. Why does the chief want to leave as quickly as possible?
(a) So the old women won't look at him.
(b) So the old women won't stab him.
(c) So he won't lose courage and change his mind.
(d) So he won't cry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the two women is older?

2. Who is condemned to death in the environment of the Arctic Circle?

3. With what do the women fill the sleeping area on their first night of travelling to keep themselves warm?

4. What sound do the women hear when they are first alone in the silent night, before they have gone to sleep?

5. What do the women find on their fourth night of walking?

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