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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 causes the women to fall down as they walk?
(a) Fatigue and old age.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Slippery patches of ice.
(d) High drifts of snow.

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

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

4. What do the women use as pulling sleds?
(a) Woven babiche.
(b) Caribou skins.
(c) Woven willow branches.
(d) Moose hides.

5. Which part of society do The People feed first?
(a) Children.
(b) Hunters.
(c) Old people.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling does Sa' arouse in Chi'idzigyaak?

2. What does Chi'idzigyaak say the young people think about them?

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

4. What do the two women use for shelter the first night in at the old campsite?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Ozhii Nelii not defend her mother?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How do the two old women make snowshoes?

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