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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After they have cached enough food, what are the women still afraid of?
(a) The return of the cold.
(b) Physical weakness.
(c) Predatory animals.
(d) Other people.

3. What are the women armed with as Daagoo approaches?
(a) Bows and arrows.
(b) Clubs.
(c) Knives.
(d) Spears.

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

5. What do the women apply to their skin?
(a) Moose grease.
(b) Bacon grease.
(c) Muskrat grease.
(d) Bear grease.

6. What does the chief believe would have been worse for The People than hunger during the harsh winter?
(a) A change in leadership.
(b) An invasion of other groups.
(c) Cold.
(d) Attacks by predators.

7. What undermines the chief's decision-making ability?
(a) Hunger and fatigue.
(b) Subterfuge.
(c) Mutiny.
(d) Discontent and complaining.

8. What does Daagoo think may have caused the scent?
(a) The movement of a caribou herd.
(b) The first blossoming of spring flowers.
(c) A hidden cache of fish.
(d) The remnant of a summer fire.

9. What emotion does Chi'idzigyaak feel when she looks at the hunters?
(a) Relief.
(b) Dismay.
(c) Resentment.
(d) Gratitude.

10. What does Sa' say the two women should prepare for when they meet the hunters?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Embarrassment.
(c) Humiliation.
(d) Death.

11. What larger animal do the women remember how to trap?
(a) Badgers.
(b) Muskrats.
(c) Moose.
(d) Caribou.

12. How do the women preserve the meat they catch?
(a) Smoke drying.
(b) Air drying.
(c) Freezing.
(d) Burying.

13. How do the council members who had first suggested abandoning the women feel when they are found?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Astonished.
(c) Grateful.
(d) Ashamed.

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

15. What scent does Daagoo catch?
(a) Caribou.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Fish.
(d) Smoke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the women first give the hunters to eat?

2. What bloodthirsty animal is waiting for the women in the new campsite they select?

3. Where do the women cache their dried meat?

4. What astonishes the hunters about the women?

5. What is each of the men conditioned to do?

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