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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the women put around their faces to protect their skin?
(a) Sunblocking cream.
(b) Hats with visors.
(c) Leather tassels.
(d) Bows made from ribbons.

2. What does Daagoo first assure the women?
(a) "We will help you back to camp."
(b) "We mean you no harm."
(c) "We are your friends."
(d) "We will save you."

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

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

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

6. What good fortune comes to The People during that winter?
(a) They find a beaver dam.
(b) They kill a caribou.
(c) They kill a number of rabbits.
(d) They kill a large moose.

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

8. When is a moose unafraid of man or anything else?
(a) Rutting season.
(b) Any time.
(c) Evening.
(d) Spring.

9. How do the men feel about following Daagoo in pursuit of the scent?
(a) Excited.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Cautious.
(d) Reluctant.

10. What do the women eat as winter ends?
(a) Squirrels and grouse.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Grouse and rabbits.
(d) Rabbits and rats.

11. What appears in the fall to increase the women's food stores?
(a) Moose.
(b) Mule deer.
(c) Trout.
(d) Salmon.

12. What do the two old women want Daagoo to tell them immediately?
(a) Whether their families have survived.
(b) Why The People are searching for them.
(c) Whether The People found food.
(d) Whether the chief had changed his mind.

13. What does the chief suffer from ever since the abandonment of the two women?
(a) Gout.
(b) Exhaustion.
(c) Fear.
(d) Self-loathing.

14. 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.

15. What kind of caches do the women devise?
(a) Under water.
(b) On the ground.
(c) Standing.
(d) Underground.

Short Answer Questions

1. What astonishes the hunters about the women?

2. What question does Daagoo ask himself to help him choose the direction in which to search?

3. Where do the women decide to move because they are afraid?

4. What delicious treat does Sa' find when she goes beyond the hill for the first time?

5. How do the women protect their cache of dried fish?

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