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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 does Chi'idzigyaak say when she hears Daagoo's voice?

2. What are the women armed with as Daagoo approaches?

3. What is each of the men conditioned to do?

4. How many animals do the women kill on the first day they set their tunnel traps?

5. How many men does the chief send to look for the women?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Daagoo decide which direction the two women might have taken?

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

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

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

Is it important to the story that the two old women and the rest of the band met up again and learned what had happened during their separation? Why or why not? In your essay, explain the importance of the reconciliation to the learning that the story offers to its characters and to its readers.

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