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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 do the women find on their fourth night of walking?
(a) A river.
(b) A cache of dried fish.
(c) A slough.
(d) A forest.

2. Why does Sa' say they are both like babies?
(a) Because they cry.
(b) Because they are dependent on others.
(c) Because they are helpless.
(d) Because they stopped caring for themselves.

3. What sound do the women hear in the dead of their first night that wakes them from their sleep?
(a) A coyote's howl.
(b) An owl's screech.
(c) A human cry.
(d) An animal's cry.

4. What does Sa' cook for their first meal in the old campsite?
(a) A rabbit head.
(b) Rabbit innards.
(c) A rabbit stew.
(d) A barbecued rabbit.

5. Which of the two women is older?
(a) Sa'.
(b) They are the same age.
(c) Neither ever learned their ages.
(d) Chi'idzigyaak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What forces Chi'idzigyaak to get up in the morning when she wants to stay asleep?

2. What does Sa's mind tell her body she must do when her body insists that they rest for a day?

3. What clears Sa's head when she wakes up each morning?

4. How does Sa' kill the rabbit?

5. How did Chi'idzigyaak get her name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Sa' finally banished from her group as a young woman?

2. Why does Sa' say that the two women are like babies?

3. What gets the two old women up in the middle of the night on the first night after their abandonment?

4. Why are the two women feeling worse when they wake up at their new campsite in Chapter 4, "A Painful Journey"?

5. What has hardship taught the two women and failed to teach the two women about each other?

6. How do the two old women make sleds to pull their possessions?

7. What do the younger men do for the two old women each time they move to a new campsite?

8. Why is the winter in which this story takes place more dangerous for The People than other winters?

9. Why did Sa' escape punishment for refusing to do women's work as a young woman?

10. Why do the two old women decide that they cannot remain in the camp where they have been abandoned?

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