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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has healed the bitter memories of the two old women?
(a) Success and comfort.
(b) Loneliness and time.
(c) Forgiveness and distance.
(d) Understanding and peace.

2. What do the women first give The People?
(a) Fish.
(b) Dried rabbit meat.
(c) Furs.
(d) Caribou.

3. Where do the women decide to move because they are afraid?
(a) A less desireable spot.
(b) A spot that is safe from predators.
(c) A spot that is safe from insects.
(d) A more desireable spot.

4. Why does Shruh Zhuu tell Chi'idzigyaak he has come to see her?
(a) To check on her welfare.
(b) To ask her forgiveness.
(c) To show her how he has grown.
(d) To get his hatchet.

5. What does the chief believe would give The People a second chance?
(a) Acknowledging their error in leaving the old women.
(b) Finding a new food source.
(c) Combining with another band.
(d) Finding the old women alive.

6. What does the chief decide to do about the terms the old women set?
(a) Overrule them.
(b) Respect them.
(c) Ignore them.
(d) Bargain with them.

7. How many men does the chief send to look for the women?
(a) Three.
(b) Seven.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

8. What do the women put on their cache to scare off predators?
(a) Stones.
(b) Traps.
(c) Mud.
(d) Sticks.

9. What problem do the women encounter with their huge supply of food?
(a) Storage.
(b) Spoiling.
(c) Preservation.
(d) Boredom.

10. Why does Chi'idzigyaak refuse most visitors?
(a) Embarrassment.
(b) Pride.
(c) Fear.
(d) Disinterest.

11. How do the women keep the bear from their fish?
(a) They bury the fish where the bear can't smell it.
(b) They give the bear the guts.
(c) They scare the bear away by yelling.
(d) They hang the fish too high for the bear.

12. How do the women protect their cache of dried fish?
(a) Fires.
(b) Buried sticks.
(c) Thorn bushes.
(d) Sand traps.

13. Why is the direction chosen by the women senseless to Daagoo?
(a) It is far from the spot where moose gathered.
(b) It is far from water.
(c) It is far from the caribou trails.
(d) It is near where mosquitoes breed.

14. What is each of the men conditioned to do?
(a) Run long distances.
(b) Lift heavy weights.
(c) Walk all day.
(d) Hunt without tiring.

15. What do the women first give the hunters to eat?
(a) Muskrat.
(b) Beaver.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Dried fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the women possess because of their long survival?

2. When is a moose unafraid of man or anything else?

3. What makes the women's voices seem closer to the hunters than they are?

4. How do the women learn that summer is almost over?

5. What emotions had the betrayal originally created in the two old women?

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