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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What wrong impression does Chi'idzigyaak say they had given the younger people?
(a) They were foolish.
(b) They were useful.
(c) They were childish.
(d) They were helpless.

2. What animals leave older and weaker members behind?
(a) Wolves.
(b) Moose.
(c) Caribou.
(d) Seals.

3. What do the two women use for shelter the first night in at the old campsite?
(a) An old tent frame they found.
(b) A hanging boulder near the creek.
(c) A snow pit.
(d) A sheltering tree.

4. Why does the chief want to leave as quickly as possible?
(a) So the old women won't look at him.
(b) So the old women won't stab him.
(c) So he won't cry.
(d) So he won't lose courage and change his mind.

5. What do the women make to guide the rabbits to the snare?
(a) Signposts.
(b) Hollows.
(c) Bait.
(d) Fences.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the women anxious to leave behind?

2. Who is condemned to death in the environment of the Arctic Circle?

3. What is the first skill the old women recall?

4. What do the women use as pulling sleds?

5. What does Sa' cook for their first meal in the old campsite?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the two old women make sleds to pull their possessions?

2. How is the two old women's shelter made?

3. Why do the two old women feel "almost superstitious" about their good luck in hunting?

4. Where do the two old women decide to go when they feel they cannot remain in the camp where they have been abandoned?

5. How do the migrating bands keep their fires alive?

6. Why does Sa' say that the two women are like babies?

7. How do the two old women react to the chief's announcement that they will be left behind?

8. How does Sa' kill a squirrel?

9. Why are the hunters always fed first?

10. What do the younger men do for the two old women each time they move to a new campsite?

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