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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 10 November, 10 December and 18 December 1875.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the kidnapping ordeal, how are the women treated by the tribe?
(a) As if nothing happened.
(b) Generously and lovingly and welcomed back to their homes.
(c) Cruelly and coldly because they have been humiliated.
(d) As if they now have strong medicine because of their ordeal.

2. What happens when everyone finds out Gertie is a woman?
(a) She marries one of the other muleskinners.
(b) She is exiled.
(c) She is forced to live with the Indians.
(d) She still works as a muleskinner.

3. What is the result of Reverend Hare's indiscretion?
(a) He is taken back to the fort and left there.
(b) He is banished from the tribe.
(c) He loses all credibility with the tribe.
(d) He is abandoned in the wilderness.

4. What does Helen Flight tell Lydia Bradley about the feathers in her new hat?
(a) Those particular feathers are cheap and easy to come by.
(b) The Seminole Indians kill the birds in order to get the feathers.
(c) It is silly to put feathers on hats.
(d) The feathers are from a bird that is almost extinct.

5. Sitting in the tipi at the end of her arrival day in camp, what does May realize?
(a) She is looking forward to the adventure.
(b) This is a tremendous opportunity even though it is frightening.
(c) She has always been foolish and impetuous.
(d) Perhaps the insane asylum was not as bad as she thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Cheyenne come to inspect the white women, what does May realize that Captain Bourke understands?

2. What does Narcissis do at the fort?

3. Who is Jules Seminole?

4. What is Captain Bourke's comment about May Dodd's suggestion that the woman might be able to bring an appreciation for white civilization to the savages?

5. What happens to the women who try to escape from the camp?

(see the answer key)

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