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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 had the women done to their previous camp that revealed they had been there?

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

3. What do the women eat as winter ends?

4. What emotion does Chi'idzigyaak feel when she looks at the hunters?

5. How do the council members who had first suggested abandoning the women feel when they are found?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the women make traps for muskrats?

2. What methods do the women use to protect themselves from mosquitoes?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you think the conflict the women face is mostly external or mostly internal? Give reasons from the story to support your opinion.

Essay Topic 2

The People had broken their own rules by treating the women as babies. Why had they done so? What was the effect upon the women? In your essay, discuss the benefits and pitfalls of the affection with which The People had treated the two old women.

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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