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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 eat as winter ends?
(a) Rabbits and rats.
(b) Squirrels and grouse.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Grouse and rabbits.

2. What delicious treat does Sa' find when she goes beyond the hill for the first time?
(a) Strawberries.
(b) Cranberries.
(c) Raspberries.
(d) Blueberries.

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

4. Why do The People not visit the old women immediately?
(a) They are resentful.
(b) They don't care about the women.
(c) They are frightened.
(d) They are forbidden.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Sa' perceive when looking at the faces of the hunters?
(a) They mean no harm.
(b) They are exhausted.
(c) They are not happy.
(d) They have not been eating well.

11. What collection do the women share with The People when they learn of the sorry condition of the band?
(a) Moose hide sleds.
(b) Rabbit fur garments.
(c) Beaver fur garments.
(d) Caribou hide rope.

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

13. What had the women done to their previous camp that revealed they had been there?
(a) Pitched tipis.
(b) Dug holes.
(c) Torn bark from the trees.
(d) Moved stones.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What astonishes the hunters about the women?

2. What act of weakness on the chief's part would have cost him his position?

3. What animal eats the fish guts if the bear does not?

4. What do the women put around their faces to protect their skin?

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

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