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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes the women's voices seem closer to the hunters than they are?
(a) The perfect silence.
(b) The echoing ice.
(c) The still night.
(d) The cold air.

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

3. What does Chi'idzigyaak believe about the hunters?
(a) They have come to steal the food of the two women.
(b) They are up to no good.
(c) They are here to trick the two women.
(d) They are here to help the two women.

4. What is Daagoo's response to the old women's first question?
(a) The chief has regretted his earlier decisions.
(b) He does not know.
(c) The families have survived.
(d) The People have not found enough food.

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

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

7. What hope does Daagoo offer the people as they find no sign of the two women?
(a) Maybe this year will be better.
(b) Maybe the women moved on.
(c) Maybe they will find food.
(d) Maybe the women died peacefully.

8. What does Shruh Zhuu tell Chi'idzigyaak that Ozhii Nelii is feeling?
(a) Distrust.
(b) Shame.
(c) Fear.
(d) Anger.

9. What can fish intestines be used for?
(a) Gloves.
(b) Sausage casings.
(c) Water containers.
(d) Storing cooking grease.

10. What does Daagoo notice about the snow around them?
(a) It is new.
(b) It is untrampled.
(c) It shows footsteps.
(d) It is frozen on the surface.

11. What astonishes the hunters about the women?
(a) The women are in good health.
(b) The women seem younger.
(c) The women are not hostile.
(d) The women accepted them into their tent.

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

13. What does Sa' tell Chi'idzigyaak they have to do when they hear Daagoo's voice?
(a) Burrow down and hide.
(b) Kill the four hunters.
(c) Be brave and face them.
(d) Turn and run.

14. What does Daagoo finally tell the other hunters at the end of Chapter 6, " Sadness Among The People"?
(a) "The two old women are dead."
(b) "The two old women do not wish to be found."
(c) "The two old women are near."
(d) "The two old women have forgotten The People."

15. What do the hunters smell when Daagoo first asks them to sniff the air?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Fish.
(c) Caribou.
(d) Smoke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the chief decide to do about the terms the old women set?

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

3. What do the women gather before they respond to Daagoo's call?

4. What does one of the hunters ask Daagoo?

5. What does Daagoo promise the women?

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