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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Jim and Sally argue about after Jim swims across the river?
(a) Sally says Jim should have stayed on the Rutledge's side of the river.
(b) Sally thinks Jim is setting a bad example for Daniel.
(c) Sally wants Jim to let them know where he is going.
(d) Sally thinks it is the wrong time of year to be swimming.

2. What does Daniel ask Jim to teach him?
(a) How to kill a grizzly bear.
(b) How to set a trap.
(c) How to throw a knife.
(d) How to shoot a bow and arrow.

3. What does Jim tell the man from the wagon train about Willamette Valley?
(a) It will be very dangerous because of the wild animals.
(b) It will be very dangerous because of the Indians.
(c) There are already too many white settlers there.
(d) It will be everything he's expecting.

4. Who does Jim often take with him when he slips away from his work?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Bad Medicine.
(c) Jonnie.
(d) Mr. Rutledge.

5. What does Jim plan to do with the horse after the men all tell him that he shouldn't have stolen it?
(a) Personally hand it over to its owner.
(b) Kill it so noone else will know he stole it.
(c) Keep it.
(d) Put it back in the same place he found it.

6. What does Jim feel when the cabin is finished?
(a) Pride.
(b) Anger.
(c) Shame.
(d) Admiration.

7. Which one of these is a disturbing memory that Jim has about the Indians?
(a) The Indians stealing from each other.
(b) A man who with a necklace of scalps.
(c) His Indian mother beating him.
(d) A woman who kills her child.

8. What is Jim's reaction to his own childhood memories?
(a) He tells the memories to Daniel.
(b) The memories convince him that Sally is right about many things.
(c) He tries to remember more.
(d) He fights them.

9. How is Jonnie suffering as a result of Jim's identity crisis?
(a) Jonnie wishes Jim would return to the Indian tribe.
(b) Jonnie is jealous of the time Jim spends in the woods.
(c) Jonnie feels like he would like to go join the Indian tribe with Jim, but he can't.
(d) Jonnie feels like Jim is trying to take over as head of the family.

10. Why is Jim avoiding work?
(a) He believes Jonnie should do all the work because it's his farm.
(b) He is having an identity crisis.
(c) He feels like the work is beneath him.
(d) Jonnie is giving him too much work.

11. Who, or what, is the antagonist in the book?
(a) The Indians who try to kill Jim and Daniel.
(b) The changing culture of the West.
(c) Jonnie and Sally.
(d) Jim's identity and cultural confusion.

12. Who is the first to suggest that Jim can track the cattle thieves?
(a) Mr. Rutledge.
(b) Sam Mullins.
(c) Joe Meek.
(d) Sally Keath.

13. How do the men convince Jim that fighting the Indians is not the best way to retrieve the cattle?
(a) They are afraid some of their own men will get hurt or killed in a fight.
(b) They say they will probably lose if they try to fight the Indians.
(c) They convince Jim that fighting would cost the lives of many of the Indians.
(d) They say the Indians will retaliate against the settlers if they try to fight them.

14. What do Jim and Daniel do when Jim calls Daniel out?
(a) Hunt in the woods.
(b) Swim in the river.
(c) Throw sticks and pebbles at each other.
(d) Discuss leadership.

15. How does Daniel feel about Tom?
(a) He is jealous of the attention Tom gives to Jonnie and Sally.
(b) He admires Tom because he is a mountain man.
(c) He is nervous around Tom because Tom is so wild looking.
(d) He is jealous of the time Jim spends with Tom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Jonnie rides Jim's horse?

2. How does Jim practice signing his name?

3. How does Jonnie's excitement over getting land affect Jim?

4. What does Jim realize after killing the Indian and returning the horse?

5. Which of the following has NOT changed by the end of the book?

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