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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. How do moose protect themselves from cold?
(a) Digging shelters.
(b) Huddling in circles.
(c) Migrating.
(d) Staying in one place.

2. What does Sa' have in sufficient quantity for both of them?
(a) Determination.
(b) Water.
(c) Hope.
(d) Food.

3. What are the women anxious to leave behind?
(a) Winter.
(b) Scarcity.
(c) Cold.
(d) Bad memories.

4. What feeling does Sa' arouse in Chi'idzigyaak?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Enthusiasm.
(c) Despair.
(d) Hope.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What relatives does Chi'idzigyaak have in the group?

2. What causes the women to fall down as they walk?

3. How do the women know when rabbits live nearby?

4. How did the women sleep on the fourth night?

5. What does Sa' gladly realize on the fourth night?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the winter in which this story takes place more dangerous for The People than other winters?

2. How does Sa' kill a squirrel?

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

4. What painful memories does Chi'idzigyaak recall?

5. What unusual character flaw do the two old women possess?

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

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

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

9. Why does Ozhii Nelii not defend her mother?

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

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