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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 Sa' say the two women should prepare for when they meet the hunters?
(a) Death.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Humiliation.
(d) Embarrassment.

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

3. What collection do the women share with The People when they learn of the sorry condition of the band?
(a) Rabbit fur garments.
(b) Caribou hide rope.
(c) Beaver fur garments.
(d) Moose hide sleds.

4. What question does Daagoo ask that the other hunters cannot answer?
(a) Has another band gone through here?
(b) Why would the campfire still be warm?
(c) Why would anyone try to hide the stripped spots on the trees?
(d) Where have the old women gone?

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the two old women want Daagoo to tell them immediately?

3. How do the four men feel about looking for the old women after the second day of searching?

4. What do the first visitors bring each time they come to see the old women?

5. When is a moose unafraid of man or anything else?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What condition are The People in when they arrive at the camp where they had abandoned the two women?

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

4. What game does the bull moose play with Sa'?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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