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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 is Ozhii Nelii afraid of?
(a) The People might shun her.
(b) The People might cannibalize her.
(c) The People might banish her.
(d) The People might leave her behind.

2. Which of the two women is older?
(a) Neither ever learned their ages.
(b) They are the same age.
(c) Sa'.
(d) Chi'idzigyaak.

3. Why are the men a danger to the group?
(a) They cannot find wives.
(b) They are frustrated and angered easily.
(c) They are poor hunters.
(d) They have cannibalistic feelings.

4. What kind of work do the women do?
(a) Planting and harvesting.
(b) Indoor.
(c) Burdensome and time-consuming.
(d) Light and easy.

5. What is the first reason why the women determine to leave the fall camp?
(a) There are not enough animals to kill.
(b) The People might return.
(c) There is not enough water.
(d) There would be other hunters coming through.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the women trying to avoid by covering their faces?

2. What does Sa' thinks holds power over all living things?

3. Why does the chief want to leave as quickly as possible?

4. How does Sa' feel when she sees the campsite where they had camped many years before?

5. What skill does Sa' possess that she had forgotten?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Sa' finally banished from her group as a young woman?

2. How does Chi'idzigyaak make a rabbit snare?

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

4. Why did Sa' escape punishment for refusing to do women's work as a young woman?

5. What has hardship taught the two women and failed to teach the two women about each other?

6. What are the discomforts that the women notice most as they travel?

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

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

9. How do the two old women make snowshoes?

10. Why do the two women boil the squirrel meat and drink the broth rather than eating the meat?

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