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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 the chief believe would give The People a second chance?
(a) Finding a new food source.
(b) Combining with another band.
(c) Acknowledging their error in leaving the old women.
(d) Finding the old women alive.

2. What does Daagoo think may have caused the scent?
(a) The movement of a caribou herd.
(b) A hidden cache of fish.
(c) The remnant of a summer fire.
(d) The first blossoming of spring flowers.

3. How does Daagoo respond to the question the hunter asks him?
(a) "The band of The People."
(b) "We will see."
(c) "The cache of fish."
(d) "The old women."

4. How many animals do the women kill on the first day they set their tunnel traps?
(a) Two.
(b) None.
(c) One.
(d) Ten.

5. How do the council members who had first suggested abandoning the women feel when they are found?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Grateful.
(c) Ashamed.
(d) Astonished.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the women keep the bear from their fish?

2. How do the women feel when the chief arrives at their camp?

3. What does Daagoo first assure the women?

4. What do the women gather before they respond to Daagoo's call?

5. What do the women first give the hunters to eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. When they hear their names called, why do the women agree that there is no use in trying to hide?

2. Why do the women realize that tearing the bark from the birch trees has been a mistake?

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

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

5. Why had Daagoo been surprised that no one had ever silenced the two old women when they lived together?

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

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

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

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

10. Why are the women afraid that other people might come to their fish camp?

(see the answer keys)

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