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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 the result of returning circulation to Sa's legs?
(a) Less pain.
(b) More pain.
(c) Continued pain.
(d) Relief from pain.

2. Why do the women check their snares during the night?
(a) They were too curious to wait.
(b) They were not sleeping well.
(c) To get to their catch before other predators.
(d) Because they were too hungry to wait.

3. What causes Sa's circulation to start again each morning?
(a) Massaging her legs.
(b) Crawling around the campsite.
(c) Jogging around the campsite.
(d) Limping around the campsite.

4. What danger lies in crossing the frozen river?
(a) Hidden cracks in the ice.
(b) Slipping and falling.
(c) Broken shards of ice.
(d) Unseen obstacles.

5. What protects Shruh Zhuu when he freely voices his opinions as a child?
(a) His youth and innocence.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) The favor of the chief.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does not arrive in the morning because of the time of year?

2. What are the women anxious to leave behind?

3. Why can't the women move when they wake up on the second morning of their travels?

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

5. Why does Chi'idzigyaak pretend to be asleep on the fifth morning?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the group react to the chief's announcement that the two old women would be left behind?

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

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

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

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

7. What good deed have The People done for the two women as they leave them behind?

8. Why does Sa' smile when Chi'idzigyaak notices that they have arrived at the creek, but are on the wrong side?

9. How does Sa' kill a squirrel?

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

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