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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 do the women put around their faces to protect their skin?
(a) Hats with visors.
(b) Leather tassels.
(c) Sunblocking cream.
(d) Bows made from ribbons.

2. What does Sa' tell Chi'idzigyaak they have to do when they hear Daagoo's voice?
(a) Kill the four hunters.
(b) Be brave and face them.
(c) Burrow down and hide.
(d) Turn and run.

3. What emotions had the betrayal originally created in the two old women?
(a) Forgiveness and tolerance.
(b) Hate and fear.
(c) Courage and patience.
(d) Love and loneliness.

4. What does Chi'idzigyaak say when she hears Daagoo's voice?
(a) "We should go back to The People."
(b) "They will find us."
(c) "We must move and keep hiding."
(d) "They can't find us."

5. What does the chief believe would have been worse for The People than hunger during the harsh winter?
(a) Attacks by predators.
(b) An invasion of other groups.
(c) Cold.
(d) A change in leadership.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What delicious treat does Sa' find when she goes beyond the hill for the first time?

3. What erases the bad feelings between Chi'idzigyaak and Ozhii Nelii?

4. What does Daagoo give the women that causes them to trust him?

5. What do the women first give The People?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Sa' notice about the hunters during their first conversation?

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

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

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

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