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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 1 - 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part I: Chapter 3, what does the Indian agent, Hiram Talp, use as a pretext to collect the children from the reservation?
(a) Threatening legal action if they refused to comply.
(b) Persuading their mothers to let them attend boarding school.
(c) Promising to take them to the newly built train station.
(d) Offering to pay for their education.

2. In Part I: Chapter 4, how does Ogichidaa feel after returning from the war?
(a) Pleased and satisfied.
(b) Reeling and deathly.
(c) Fulfilled and accomplished.
(d) Slim and handsome.

3. In Part I: Chapter 2, who are Zosie and Mary?
(a) Augustus' sisters.
(b) Twins that Augustus met on his journey.
(c) The Indian man's daughters.
(d) Scranton Roy's daughters.

4. In Part I: Chapter 1, how does Scranton Roy end up taking care of the child?
(a) The child's mother entrusts the child to him before disappearing.
(b) He follows a dog carrying the child on its back and decides to care for them.
(c) He is assigned the duty of protecting and caring for the child by his commanding officer.
(d) He finds the child abandoned in the wilderness.

5. In Part I: Chapter 1, why does Miss Peace McKnight come to the Great Plains?
(a) To pursue her passion for teaching and obtain a teaching certificate.
(b) To seek new opportunities and start a new life.
(c) To join her father in his button-cart business.
(d) To escape her failed family business in Scotland.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part I: Chapter 4, what does Klaus offer to bake for the men?

2. In Part I: Chapter 1, how do Miss Peace McKnight and the young girl become friends?

3. In Part I: Chapter 4, what do Augustus Roy see when he looks down at the money he was counting?

4. In Part I: Chapter 2, who is Scranton Roy?

5. In Part I: Chapter 4, what does Asin suggest to Ogichidaa as a way to kill his rage?

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