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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a true statement about Fast Horse's relationship to the Lone Eaters since his return from the horse raid on the Crow without Yellow Kidney?
(a) Fast Horse will receive power and position from the Beaver Medicine.
(b) Fast Horse is respected as a great horse-stealer.
(c) Fast Horse is close friends with White Man's Dog.
(d) Fast Horse is an outsider among the Lone Eaters

2. What does Fools Crow use as bait to attract the evil Napikwan?
(a) Raven.
(b) Himself.
(c) Red Paint.
(d) A buffalo.

3. What is it about White Man's Dog that Yellow Kidney likes in spite of his unlucky reputation?
(a) White Man's Dog always does what he is told.
(b) White Man's Dog projects a steadiness and calmness.
(c) White Man's Dog is wise beyond his years.
(d) White Man's Dog is an entertaining traveling companion.

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

5. What new name does White Man's Dog receive after receiving war honors from his participation in a horse raid?
(a) Fools Crow.
(b) Napikwans
(c) Fast Horse.
(d) Man-Who-Kills-Chief.

6. What does Boss Ribs want Fools Crow to do about Fast Horse at the end of Chapter 17?
(a) He asks Fools Crow to find Fast Horse and bring him home.
(b) He wants Fools Crow to stop being friends with Fast Horse.
(c) He wants Fools Crow to banish Fast Horse.
(d) He asks Fools Crow to kill Owl Child and bring Fast Horse home.

7. What is Fools Crow surprised by that Raven knows?
(a) What happened at Bull Shield's camp.
(b) How to talk.
(c) That Red Paint is pregnant.
(d) His new name.

8. Who is the main protagonist in this story around whose life this story revolves?
(a) White Man's Dog.
(b) Fast Horse.
(c) Mik-api.
(d) Rides-at-the-Door.

9. Which of the following does NOT advance the theme of loss and change in Chapters 13 and 14?
(a) That Fast Horse is rejecting his promising future with the tribe as holder of the Beaver Medicine in favor of joining with Owl Child.
(b) That the white man is killing game for no reason.
(c) That Raven would have Fools Crow break with tradition and kill a white man.
(d) That Red Paint has become pregnant.

10. What bothers Fools Crow about the news that the Napikwan scout tells them?
(a) Fools Crow does not know if he can believe the Napikwan scout's story, as it is well known that the Napikwans lie.
(b) It bothers him that Fast Horse might be with Owl Child, who he feels is a bad man.
(c) Fools Crow fears the bad luck that Four Bear's death may bring to the Pikunis.
(d) It bothers him that the man known as Four Bears was killed.

11. What color horse does Owl Child sit on?
(a) Black and White.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Brown.

12. What reward will the Raven bestow on White Man's Dog if he releases the wolverine?
(a) Raven will give White Man's Dog a power dream.
(b) Raven will return Yellow Kidney to the tribe.
(c) Raven will make White Man's Dog brave and strong.
(d) Raven will teach White Man's Dog alone to use the wolverine's magic power.

13. Who does Rides-at-the-door think should be banished from the Lone Eaters?
(a) Owl Child.
(b) Yellow Kidney.
(c) White Man's Dog.
(d) Fast Horse.

14. What does Fast Horse's alliance with Owl Child foretell?
(a) Good fortune for the Lone Eaters.
(b) A fighting alliance with the other Pikunis tribes.
(c) Destruction of the Napikwans.
(d) More trouble with the Napikwans.

15. 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?
(a) The theme of "love and dreams."
(b) The theme of "boys will be boys."
(c) The theme of "loss and change."
(d) The theme of "nature versus nurture."

Short Answer Questions

1. What object ties a wolverine dream of White Dog's and a wolverine dream of Kills-close-to-the-Lake's with reality?

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

3. What does the author achieve by opening Chapter 3 from Yellow Kidney's point of view?

4. What does Eagle Rib dream about that troubles him?

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

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