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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. How many steps toward the men does the leader of the herd take before he falls to the ground?
(a) 12.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 8.

2. Miller reports that during his ride, he had seen snow up to how many feet deep?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 24.
(d) 12.

3. What is NOT an element of the hunting party's breakfast on the first morning of the hunt?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Oatmeal.
(c) Side meat.
(d) Fried mush.

4. Who carries Miller's supply of ammunition during the hunt?
(a) Miller.
(b) Charley.
(c) Schneider.
(d) Andrews.

5. Who constructs a tent out of canvas and wood once the hunting party sets up camp in the valley?
(a) Charley and Andrews.
(b) Schneider and Charley.
(c) Andrews and Miller.
(d) Miller and Schneider.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller says that buffalo are always either killed by a man or what?

2. What is Miller's reply when Andrews asks him how long the hunting party will be snowed in?

3. How does Andrews sleep the night before the hunt begins?

4. Miller instructs Andrews that when shooting buffalo, one should aim just a little behind what part of the buffalo?

5. Once the men get a fire started, who thrusts "his boots close to the fire, and almost into it" (186)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Andrews's growing comfort with the grisly nature of the buffalo skinning process?

2. How does Schneider's death affect Andrews?

3. Why must the men construct a wooden and canvas tent once they set up for the hunt?

4. How does Schneider's death occur?

5. Describe and analyze the intense clash between Miller and Schneider in Part Two, Chapter VI.

6. What is demonstrated about Miller's character when he voices the desire to bring back a huge load of hides to show the hunters in Butcher's Crossing?

7. What is the author's purpose for including each hunting party member's reaction to the coming winter?

8. How does Andrews's view of Miller change during the last hour of the buffalo hunt?

9. How is Miller's monomaniacal nature demonstrated in his response to Schneider's comment that they do not have to hunt any more buffalo?

10. How does Andrews view Miller's actions as he takes the steps necessary to turn gunpowder into bullets?

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