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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What has Ozhii Nelii done each day since the old women were left behind?
(a) Cried.
(b) Prayed.
(c) Wondered.
(d) Worked.

4. How do the women protect themselves at night?
(a) Staying awake.
(b) Hiding under an overhanging ledge.
(c) A smoky fire.
(d) Hiding in a cave.

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

6. What does Daagoo promise the women?
(a) No one will cause them harm.
(b) Daagoo will protect them.
(c) The chief will protect them.
(d) They will be accepted into the camp.

7. What emotions had the betrayal originally created in the two old women?
(a) Courage and patience.
(b) Love and loneliness.
(c) Forgiveness and tolerance.
(d) Hate and fear.

8. Why do the women work in the heat of the day?
(a) Vampire bats are sleeping.
(b) Wolves are sleeping.
(c) Insects are sleeping.
(d) Bears are sleeping.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one of the hunters ask Daagoo?

2. What does Chi'idzigyaak say when she hears Daagoo's voice?

3. How do the women preserve the meat they catch?

4. How do the men feel about following Daagoo in pursuit of the scent?

5. How many men does the chief send to look for the women?

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