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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 appears in the fall to increase the women's food stores?
(a) Moose.
(b) Mule deer.
(c) Salmon.
(d) Trout.

2. What problem do the women encounter with their huge supply of food?
(a) Boredom.
(b) Spoiling.
(c) Storage.
(d) Preservation.

3. How do the women preserve the meat they catch?
(a) Burying.
(b) Air drying.
(c) Smoke drying.
(d) Freezing.

4. Why does Chi'idzigyaak refuse most visitors?
(a) Embarrassment.
(b) Disinterest.
(c) Pride.
(d) Fear.

5. What emotions had the betrayal originally created in the two old women?
(a) Love and loneliness.
(b) Hate and fear.
(c) Forgiveness and tolerance.
(d) Courage and patience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What act of weakness on the chief's part would have cost him his position?

2. What does the chief believe would give The People a second chance?

3. How do the women keep the bear from their fish?

4. Why is the direction chosen by the women senseless to Daagoo?

5. What do the women apply to their skin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the women afraid that other people might come to their fish camp?

2. Why would it be difficult to see from a distance that Sa' was an old woman?

3. What game does the bull moose play with Sa'?

4. What does Sa' notice about the hunters during their first conversation?

5. How do the women make traps for muskrats?

6. Why does the sense that the old women might be alive offer so much hope to The People?

7. How has the women's attitude toward The People changed in the time since they were abandoned?

8. How can the hunters tell that the old women are in better shape than The People as the winter ends?

9. When they hear their names called, why do the women agree that there is no use in trying to hide?

10. Why had Daagoo been surprised that no one had ever silenced the two old women when they lived together?

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