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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. Why don't the women camp in the more protected area of the forest?
(a) They can't walk any farther.
(b) They want to stay by the lake.
(c) They want to stay by the river.
(d) They are afraid of forest wolves.

2. What does Sa' thinks holds power over all living things?
(a) The land.
(b) The moon.
(c) The weather.
(d) The sun.

3. What causes Sa' to cry for the first time?
(a) She feels defeated.
(b) Her body is too stiff to move.
(c) She feels sorry for her friend.
(d) She is fatigued and exhausted.

4. How does Sa' kill the rabbit?
(a) She chops off its head.
(b) She crushes its heart with her hand.
(c) She stabs it through the heart.
(d) She strangles it.

5. What does not arrive in the morning because of the time of year?
(a) Birds.
(b) Light.
(c) Friends.
(d) Game animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the old women do in return for the help of the group?

2. What is the first thing the old women do to save themselves?

3. What protects Shruh Zhuu when he freely voices his opinions as a child?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ozhii Nelii not defend her mother?

2. What slows the two old women's progress when they wake up on the second day of travel?

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

4. Why is Sa' disappointed with Chi'idzigyaak when she agrees with her that they must move on?

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

6. How is Shruh Zhuu's behavior unusual among The People?

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

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

9. Why do the two old women take care not to work too hard in the cold?

10. What gets the two old women up in the middle of the night on the first night after their abandonment?

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