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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. What does Sam decide to do when he can't find the Spirit World in 1967?
(a) Give up on the old ways.
(b) Try again the next day.
(c) Fabricate a vision.
(d) Tell Pokey he couldn't do it.

2. What does the young Indian turn into after Sam knocks him out?
(a) A crow.
(b) A black coyote.
(c) Calliope.
(d) Pokey.

3. What is Lonnie doing while he listens to Calliope and Sam above him?
(a) Playing with his gun.
(b) Doing his dishes.
(c) Sharpening a knife.
(d) Cleaning his apartment.

4. Adeline recently converts to which religion?
(a) Taoism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Hindu.
(d) Buddhism.

5. After the Indian questions Sam and offers Calliope to him, what does the Indian do?
(a) Throws a knife into Calliope's tire.
(b) Pushes Sam into Calliope.
(c) Punctures Sam's tire.
(d) Trips Calliope.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Coyote describe being safe to Sam?

2. Who helps Sam flee Crow Country?

3. Where does Calliope work?

4. What threat does Lonnie make against Calliope with on the night Sam comes to Calliope's apartment for dinner?

5. In Chapter 8, what is Calliope thinking about as she waits for Sam to pick her up from work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pokey's initial interpretation of Sam's dream of Lloyd Commerce lead him to do with Sam?

2. What is Billy's plan for saving Sam after the incident with Enos?

3. Why does Spagnola believe Sam was involved in the Indian's attack on Cable?

4. In 1967, Pokey drives Sam to the fasting place. What does Pokey hope Sam will accomplish by fasting?

5. How does Coyote receive his shape-shifting ability?

6. Why does Adeline say she is getting bad medicine from being Crow in the chapter titled, "Five Faces of Coyote Blue?"

7. What is the bet Aaron Aaron makes with his companions concerning Sam?

8. Why are Calliope, Nina, and Yiffer hiding the morning after Sam and Calliope's dinner date?

9. Why does Tinker attack Spagnola?

10. According to Coyote's story, why do the Crow Indians use sweat lodges as part of their religious traditions?

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