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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Red Paint's mother react when Red Paint tell her that she is pregnant?

2. How does White Man's Dog kill Bull Shield?

3. Which of the following does NOT advance the theme of loss and change in Chapters 13 and 14?

4. Why does the brave, White Man's Dog, fear that no woman will find him attractive as a husband?

5. What does Rides-at-the-door think they should do about the Napikwans?

Short Essay Questions

1. What troubling dream does Eagle Ribs relate to the raiding party as they wait for Fast Horse and Yellow Kidney to catch up?

2. What secret does Raven promise to keep for Fools Crow, and why?

3. Describe Yellow Kidney's return to the Lone Eater's camp.

4. Describe White Man's Dog as he was introduced in the first two chapters of this book.

5. What happens when Yellow Kidney and the raiding party try to find the stream from Fast Horse's dream?

6. What discussion is sparked when Fools Crow tells the Lone Eater camp that he has killed a Napikwan hunter?

7. Describe Fast Horse's power dream in Chapter 3.

8. Describe White Man's Dog's recurring dream in Chapter 3.

9. How does the war party react to the solar eclipse on the fourth day out?

10. When White Man's Dog marries Red Paint, her father, Yellow Kidney, gives White Man's Dog his many-shots-gun as a wedding present. Why is this particularly significant to White Man's Dog?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the elements of plot (inciting incident, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and resolution) revealed in this novel? Support your contention of which chapter represents the climax. What is the resolution of this story?

Essay Topic 2

Fast Horse did not choose to follow the path of the Beaver Medicine. Fools Crow did not become bitter with the Napikwan and want to follow Owl Child. How do you think the story would have been different if Fast Horse was the protagonist who stayed with the Lone Eaters, and Fools Crow were the antagonist who challenged him?

Essay Topic 3

Explore the theme of relationships within the context of the novel, Fools Crow. How did the relationship between Fools Crow and Fast Horse develop and change? How did the relationship between Yellow Kidney and his family develop and change? How did the relationship between the Napikwan and the Pikunis develop and change?

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