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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 does one of the hunters ask Daagoo?
(a) What he expects to find.
(b) What he wants them to do.
(c) What he smells.
(d) How much longer they will search.

2. What do the women apply to their skin?
(a) Moose grease.
(b) Muskrat grease.
(c) Bacon grease.
(d) Bear grease.

3. What does Sa' perceive when looking at the faces of the hunters?
(a) They have not been eating well.
(b) They are exhausted.
(c) They are not happy.
(d) They mean no harm.

4. What does Daagoo finally tell the other hunters at the end of Chapter 6, " Sadness Among The People"?
(a) "The two old women do not wish to be found."
(b) "The two old women are near."
(c) "The two old women have forgotten The People."
(d) "The two old women are dead."

5. What is each of the men conditioned to do?
(a) Walk all day.
(b) Lift heavy weights.
(c) Run long distances.
(d) Hunt without tiring.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the men feel about following Daagoo in pursuit of the scent?

2. What does the chief suffer from ever since the abandonment of the two women?

3. What does Chi'idzigyaak say when she hears Daagoo's voice?

4. How do the women protect themselves at night?

5. Where do the women cache their dried meat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ch'idzigyaak afraid when The People first come to visit the two women?

2. How has the women's attitude toward The People changed in the time since they were abandoned?

3. How do the women make traps for muskrats?

4. What had hardship taught the women and The People that they had not known before?

5. Why do the four hunters feel impatient about their task of searching for the old women?

6. Why does Daagoo smile with admiration when he sees the two women?

7. How can the hunters tell that the old women are in better shape than The People as the winter ends?

8. Why would it be difficult to see from a distance that Sa' was an old woman?

9. What do the women do with the inside parts of the fish they catch?

10. What methods do the women use to protect themselves from mosquitoes?

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