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

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

3. What does Sa' gladly realize on the fourth night?
(a) They will survive.
(b) They have reached their destination.
(c) Spring is on the way.
(d) They are on the right trail.

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

5. How do the women know when rabbits live nearby?
(a) There are prints in the snow.
(b) There are droppings on the ground.
(c) There are wolves lurking nearby.
(d) There are willows.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Chi'idzigyaak get her name?

2. In what do the women sleep on the first night of their travels?

3. What is the purpose of leaving older members behind?

4. What does Sa's mind tell her body she must do when her body insists that they rest for a day?

5. What sound do the women hear in the dead of their first night that wakes them from their sleep?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the first tasks the women must do to prepare their shelter at the fish camp?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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