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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. How do the women protect their cache of dried fish?
(a) Thorn bushes.
(b) Buried sticks.
(c) Fires.
(d) Sand traps.

2. What does Shruh Zhuu tell Chi'idzigyaak that Ozhii Nelii is feeling?
(a) Fear.
(b) Distrust.
(c) Shame.
(d) Anger.

3. What act of weakness on the chief's part would have cost him his position?
(a) Asking for help.
(b) Taking the old women back into the band.
(c) Relinquising his leadership.
(d) Invading another band.

4. What makes the women's voices seem closer to the hunters than they are?
(a) The still night.
(b) The cold air.
(c) The perfect silence.
(d) The echoing ice.

5. What animal eats the fish guts if the bear does not?
(a) Vultures.
(b) Ravens.
(c) Wolves.
(d) Badgers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the chief believe would give The People a second chance?

2. What can fish intestines be used for?

3. What appears in the fall to increase the women's food stores?

4. What has Ozhii Nelii done each day since the old women were left behind?

5. How many men does the chief send to look for the women?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the sense that the old women might be alive offer so much hope to The People?

2. How do The People agree to respect the two women?

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

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

5. What had the women made in their spare time during the winter?

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

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

8. Why does Daagoo hold out hope that the old women are still alive?

9. Why do the old women not want to get too much help from The People?

10. How do the women make traps for muskrats?

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