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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 undermines the chief's decision-making ability?
(a) Hunger and fatigue.
(b) Mutiny.
(c) Subterfuge.
(d) Discontent and complaining.

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

3. Who is allowed to visit the old women under the terms of their first agreement?
(a) The chief and Daagoo.
(b) Women only.
(c) The four hunters.
(d) Family only.

4. What had hardship taught The People about themselves?
(a) They were not weak, but strong.
(b) They were not wise, but foolish.
(c) They were not strong, but weak.
(d) They were not happy, but sad.

5. What does Chi'idzigyaak believe about the hunters?
(a) They are up to no good.
(b) They are here to trick the two women.
(c) They are here to help the two women.
(d) They have come to steal the food of the two women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the women first give The People?

2. What do The People want from the two old women?

3. What do the women possess because of their long survival?

4. What act of weakness on the chief's part would have cost him his position?

5. What kind of caches do the women devise?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Daagoo believe the birch bark was stripped from the trees by the two women?

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

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

5. How do the women make traps for muskrats?

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

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

8. What does Shruh Zhuu do with the two old women each day?

9. Where do the women decide to go to protect themselves from others as the weather warms?

10. How has the chief's decision to leave the women behind affected him since?

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