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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What larger animal do the women remember how to trap?

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

3. What does Sa' say the two women should prepare for when they meet the hunters?

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

5. What do the women put around their faces to protect their skin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What surprises Daagoo during his first conversation with the two women?

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

7. How do the women make traps for muskrats?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Authors write for many different purposes such as to explain, to inform, to persuade, or to entertain. In your essay, tell what you think Ms. Wallis' main purpose was in writing this story. Explain your reasoning. Make your determination based on the story's impact on you as a reader. Were you entertained? Was your mind changed in some way? Did you learn something you didn't know before?

Essay Topic 2

Who do you think suffered more during the long, hard winter? Was it the two women, or the chief, the daughter, and the other members of the band? Why? In your essay, compare and contrast the situations of the two groups. What advantage did the women have? What advantage did the chief and the rest of The People have?

Essay Topic 3

In even the smallest groups, such as families, political structures must exist. In your essay, explain the political structure by which decisions are made and power is allocated within The People.

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