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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name the Ojibway use for the northwind, as explained in Chapter 10?
(a) Zhaunagush.
(b) Anishinabeg.
(c) Keewatin.
(d) Aki.

2. What does Saul’s teammate Buddy Black Wolf call Saul?
(a) Secret Saul.
(b) Their secret weapon.
(c) Saul.
(d) Slick Saul.

3. What does Saul use to practice on during the summer months?
(a) Linoleum.
(b) Ice.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Rubber.

4. How does Saul see the other hockey players, as described at the start of Chapter 18?
(a) Angry.
(b) Threatening.
(c) Terrible.
(d) Warrior-like.

5. Who guided Saul’s family’s ten-day journey to Gods Lake?
(a) John.
(b) Naomi.
(c) Saul.
(d) Mary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leaves Gods Lake to take Ben to a priest, leaving Saul alone with his grandmother?

2. What do they call the graveyard for all the children who died while at St. Jerome’s?

3. What reason does Levi Deiter give to Father Leboutilier for Saul no longer being able to play with the Falcons right before Saul’s eleventh game?

4. When Saul’s family lived in the bush, they only had contact with white men where?

5. In Chapter 3, Saul says that he was how old when every thing he “knew of Indian died” (8)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the students at St. Jerome’s do in Chapter 13 during a rare time with no supervision?

2. Where is Saul Indian Horse at the start of the novel and what is he supposed to be doing in order to heal?

3. After Father Leboutilier introduces hockey to the school Saul wants to play but is too young. What does Father suggest Saul do until he is old enough to play?

4. Describe Saul’s life after his family leaves the bush in search of the white man’s drink.

5. What are the nighttime invasions described in Chapter 21?

6. As Saul learns to skate he feels he can perform any move he envisions. How does he relate this to something his grandmother had taught him about the universe?

7. What praise does Father Leboutilier give to Saul during and after his first game in The White River arena in Chapter 20?

8. How did Saul’s family come to be called Indian Horse?

9. What happens to Saul when he arrives at St. Jerome’s in Chapter 11?

10. Describe Naomi’s final moments.

(see the answer keys)

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