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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 long does Nitsokan challenge Fast Horse to travel without stopping?

2. In Part 4, how does the deserted war lodge get re-introduced into the story?

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

4. What does Fools Crow do to help One Spot get rid of his nightmares?

5. What does Owl Child do at the war lodge?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Pikunis ask of the seizers when told of the spread of small pox, and what do the seizers reply?

2. How does Fast Horse's reaction to finding Yellow Kidney's body show he is beginning to regret the path he has chosen with Owl Child?

3. A white healer comes to the Lone Eaters' camp to warn of the smallpox. Why would the Pikunis believe anything a white man has to say?

4. What happens when Fools Crow catches up to Fast Horse and tries to talk to him about his association with Owl Child and his killing of the rancher?

5. What are the three demands the seizers make of the Pikunis when they meet with General Sully?

6. What is strange and incomplete about the dream Mik-api has for three nights that confuses him?

7. Describe what Fools Crow sees or does not see in the water of the place he is lead to in his dream.

8. What happens after killing the whiskey runners that shows that Fast Horse may be changing and becoming concerned for his people after all?

9. What is the significance of the thrashing wings that Fools Crow hears when he wakes in the woman's dwelling?

10. When the Pikunis chiefs meet for council, what do they decide to do about the white healer's warning and the seizers' demands?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foreshadowing was used extensively in the writing style used in the story of Fools Crow. Discuss the events, thoughts and feelings that happened to individual characters in their lives or in their dreams that were a foreshadowing of the difficulties that the Pikunis and the Napikwans would face, or of the impending devastation wrought by the plague of smallpox and its relationship to the theme of Loss and Change.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the irony and the tragedy of Yellow Kidney's death. How do you think the story would have been affected if Yellow Kidney had not died in this way?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about how each of these conflict types are represented in the novel, Fools Crow. Does one of these emerge as the main conflict of the story, or are they all of equal importance?

a) Man vs. Man: he struggles against another person or group of people (usually against the antagonist, but not always).

b) Man vs. Self: two elements within himself struggle for mastery.

c) Man vs. Society: he struggles against society as a force, society being the rules, regulations, morals and/or beliefs common to a particular people.

d) Man vs. Nature: he struggles against forces of nature, such as storms, wind, fire, cold, heat, etc.

e) Man vs. Machine: he struggles against machines.

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