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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concerns Rides-at-the-door regarding White Man's Dog's choice of a wife?
(a) White Man's Dog will be responsible for Yellow Kidney's entire family.
(b) He does not think White Man's Dog is ready to marry.
(c) White Man's Dog will lose position in the camp.
(d) He fears the woman will not be a good wife to White Man's Dog.

2. What does Yellow Kidney give to White Man's Dog as a wedding present?
(a) A knife with an antler handle he made as a youth.
(b) The skin of a white deer.
(c) His many-shots-gun.
(d) A ceremonial blanket.

3. Why does the brave, White Man's Dog, fear that no woman will find him attractive as a husband?
(a) He has never had a vision.
(b) He does not have any wealth to offer.
(c) He has a poor self-image.
(d) He has a scar on his face.

4. Who or what is the Pikunis?
(a) The sweat lodge.
(b) A name for the white man.
(c) A band of the Blackfeet tribe.
(d) A band of renegades who hate the white man.

5. Who does White Man's Dog want to take for his wife?
(a) Feather Woman.
(b) Heavy Shield Woman.
(c) Red Paint.
(d) Kills-close-to-the-lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does White Man's Dog think his dream means?

2. What new dream does White Man's Dog have in Chapter 9 that foretells of loss and change that will make the Lone Eaters feel as useless as Yellow Kidney?

3. Why would the author use so much Native American terminology in this story?

4. What brings Fast Horse esteem and a promising future?

5. In Part 1, Chapters 1 and 2, what theme is being introduced through the encroachment of the Napikwans, the development of the characters, and is further emphasized through the point of view of Rides-at-the Door?

(see the answer key)

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