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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 question does Daagoo ask himself to help him choose the direction in which to search?
2. What does one of the hunters ask Daagoo?
3. What do the women put around their faces to protect their skin?
4. How many animals do the women kill on the first day they set their tunnel traps?
5. What does Chi'idzigyaak believe about the hunters?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where do the women decide to go to protect themselves from others as the weather warms?
2. What do the women do with the inside parts of the fish they catch?
3. How does Daagoo decide which direction the two women might have taken?
4. Why had Daagoo been surprised that no one had ever silenced the two old women when they lived together?
5. Why is Ch'idzigyaak afraid when The People first come to visit the two women?
6. Why does Daagoo believe the birch bark was stripped from the trees by the two women?
7. How do The People agree to respect the two women?
8. What game does the bull moose play with Sa'?
9. What had the women made in their spare time during the winter?
10. Why do the four hunters feel impatient about their task of searching for the old women?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Velma Wallis said that she wanted to write this story because it "taught me a lesson I could use in my life." In your essay, explain what the lesson of this story is and how a person could use it in life.
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