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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does True Son have second thoughts about the ambush?
(a) He sees a young child.
(b) He is not sure that he can kill someone.
(c) There are too many mothers.
(d) He is thinking of his white mother and father.

2. What is the old Indian's name?
(a) Koquaeunquas.
(b) Antelope Runs.
(c) Corn Blade.
(d) Shalehaha.

3. Who takes True Son's moccasins and Indian dress?
(a) Alec.
(b) Aunt Kate.
(c) Gordie.
(d) Mr. Butler.

4. What is the first thing that True Son and Half Arrow do when reaching the mouth of the Muskingum?
(a) Give a homecoming yell.
(b) Bathe.
(c) Dance with joy.
(d) Fish.

5. What does Harry Butler intend to tell True Son if he confesses to stealing his gun?
(a) That he is grounded for a week.
(b) That he should pray to God for forgivness.
(c) That it was going to be his present anyway.
(d) To return it imidiately.

6. True Son feels better after doing what?
(a) Singing to the Great Spirit.
(b) Taking a nap.
(c) Sneaking out of the house.
(d) Scalping a white man.

7. How does Thitpan plan to take over a river boat?
(a) By stealing another boat and overtaking it.
(b) By lining up in a shallow crossing to form a blockade.
(c) By swimming to it.
(d) By using True Son as bait.

8. What bothers True Son about the scalp that Thitpan claims?
(a) True Son wanted to claim the scalp himself.
(b) It is the scalp of a small child.
(c) It is old and gray.
(d) It is the scalp of an Indian.

9. What does True Son refuse to take that Aunt Kate has offered to him?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Grape juice.
(c) Cookies.
(d) Cinamon rolls.

10. True son tells Parson Elder that Cuyloga says that men who do this are cowards.
(a) Surrender.
(b) Befriend whites.
(c) Fight children.
(d) Pray to God for help.

11. Who tells True Son and Half Arrow that the weather is about to change?
(a) A medicine man.
(b) Little Crane, in spirit.
(c) A fur trader.
(d) Their uncle, the Moon.

12. Who does Harry decide to tell about the Indians?
(a) Aunt Kate.
(b) No one.
(c) Myra.
(d) True Son.

13. Who gives True Son permission to join the war party?
(a) Nungasa.
(b) Quaquenga.
(c) Cuyloga.
(d) Thitpan.

14. What do the boys pass that makes them certain they are on the right path?
(a) Messages carved in trees.
(b) Traders with pelts.
(c) An arrow stuck in a tree.
(d) A painted feather flowing downstream.

15. Who did Half Arrow and True Son learn to make this device from?
(a) Fur trappers.
(b) Bejance.
(c) Their mothers.
(d) Their fathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. The second night the boys are in the boat, what do they pass?

2. Who does Aunt Kate say is responsible for bringing True Son back home?

3. What do True Son and Half Arrow attempt to do to the man who killed their friend?

4. What do the boys do while they are hiding the day after stealing the boat?

5. Who does not come to the celebration of True Son and Half Arrow's homecoming?

(see the answer keys)

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