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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fast Horse find there?
(a) A woman painting on a yellow skin.
(b) The remnants of a meal.
(c) A sliver of white stone.
(d) A dead man lying on the floor.

2. In Chapter 19, what does Heavy Shield Woman do for her guests?
(a) She prepares a meal for them.
(b) She prepares a sleeping area for them.
(c) She gives each a gift.
(d) She tells them stories.

3. What does Fast horse see and do when he wakes up?
(a) He sees he is alone and goes back to sleep.
(b) He sees a woman painting on a yellow skin and asks her what she is doing.
(c) He sees a dog, which he kills for food.
(d) He sees his only company is a dog, he eats and falls asleep again.

4. What does Fools Crow do to help One Spot get rid of his nightmares?
(a) He reminds One Spot that if the wolf visits his dreams it is because he may want to become his dream helper.
(b) He hugs and comforts One Spot until he goes back to sleep.
(c) He performs a ritual to banish the nightmares.
(d) He gives him an amulet to wear while he sleeps.

5. What does Fools Crow look at as he ponders the situation they are in with the Napikwans and the white scab disease?
(a) His many-shots-gun.
(b) Bull Shield's Scalp.
(c) Red Paints' pregnant belly.
(d) His moccasin-shod feet.

6. What does Fools Crow discover while hunting that angers him?
(a) All the villages have been devestated by the white scab disease.
(b) All the game has been killed or driven away by the Napikwan.
(c) Carcasses of the black horn left to rot by the Napikwan hunters, who only wanted their skins.
(d) He finds a few survivors, which includes some children, from a camp burned by the Seizers.

7. Who is Nitsokan?
(a) A Pikunis chief from another tribe.
(b) A dream helper in Fools Crow's dream.
(c) The god of the stars.
(d) Red Paint's best friend.

8. What does Fools Crow find when he rides to the ranch house?
(a) He finds the man and his wife hiding inside.
(b) He finds Fast Horse's many-shots-gun.
(c) He finds the scalped dead man.
(d) He finds the weeping child.

9. What is Red Paint worried about in Chapter 22?
(a) She worries for her unborn child.
(b) She worries for her mother.
(c) She worries for her father.
(d) She worries for her husband.

10. Who does Three Bears want representing the Lone Eaters at the meeting with the seizer chiefs?
(a) Yellow Kidney.
(b) Fools Crow.
(c) Three Bears wants to represent the Lone Eaters himself .
(d) Rides-at-the-door.

11. What has happened to Red Paint's youngest brother, One Spot, in Chapter 23?
(a) He is bitten by a wolf.
(b) He has stepped into a wolf trap.
(c) He had a power dream about a wolf.
(d) He gained honor and status by killing a wolf.

12. What is Yellow Kidney thinking about when he is killed?
(a) He is thinking of his wife.
(b) He is thinking about how to avoid being killed.
(c) He is thinking of his unborn grandson.
(d) He is thinking about how his life is like that of an old man.

13. What is the "Medicine Line?"
(a) This refers to the plague of white scab disease and the rows of infected Pikunis.
(b) The border between the United States and Canada.
(c) The ritual line that a Pikunis crosses to become a many-faces man.
(d) This refers to the line up of Pikunis as they wait for blankets to be passed out from the white man.

14. Whose gossip does Heavy Shield Woman look forward to hearing?
(a) Kills-close-to-the-lake's gossip.
(b) Red Paint's gossip.
(c) White Grass Woman's gossip.
(d) Fast Horse's gossip.

15. What does Fast Horse do at the ranch?
(a) Stole the white man's children.
(b) Scalps the white man who injured him and regrets that he died too fast.
(c) Raped the white man's wife.
(d) Tortures the white man who injured him for three days before scalping him.

Short Answer Questions

1. At dusk on the third day, where does Fast Horse find himself?

2. How does Fast Horse identify the body?

3. How long will it take for the cure to arrive?

4. In the final scene of the book, what are the children doing?

5. What does Fast Horse do to a whiskey runner?

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