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

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

3. In what do the women sleep on the first night of their travels?
(a) Under an overhanging boulder.
(b) A tree.
(c) A snow pit.
(d) A cave.

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

5. What must a boy care for even above his loved ones in the group?
(a) His authority.
(b) His skill.
(c) His friends.
(d) His weapon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first reason why the women determine to leave the fall camp?

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

3. Which part of society do The People feed first?

4. What do The People wear to keep warm?

5. Why don't the women camp in the more protected area of the forest?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the two women feeling worse when they wake up at their new campsite in Chapter 4, "A Painful Journey"?

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

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

4. Why are the hunters always fed first?

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Ozhii Nelii not defend her mother?

10. Why do the two old women decide that they cannot remain in the camp where they have been abandoned?

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