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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. How does Lame Beaver manage to kill Never-Death?
(a) He shoots him.
(b) He hits him in the face.
(c) He poisons him.
(d) He suffocates him.

2. How does Elly die?
(a) She becomes very ill.
(b) She is poisoned.
(c) She is bitten by a rattlesnake.
(d) She is shot.

3. What is Pasquinel doing when he is killed?
(a) Trying to help his daughter.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Trying to find gold.
(d) Trying to find McKeag.

4. In Chapter 4, who does Lame Beaver kill with his stolen bullets?
(a) Chiefs.
(b) No one.
(c) Bison.
(d) White men.

5. In Chapter 3, what animal does the narrator say is able to cripple bison?
(a) A poisonous bird.
(b) Man.
(c) A scorpion.
(d) A rattlesnake.

Short Answer Questions

1. While traveling west, why does Levi realize some families became stranded?

2. When the cattle arrive in Chapter 8, who is the first person Jim sees?

3. What do the white men give the Native Americans when they grant them land rights?

4. Why is Never-Death so difficult to kill?

5. How does John Skimmerhorn meet Nacho?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Levi do when he finds a group of emigrants heading back east?

2. During his trip west, what happens when Levi finds the family that was killed by Pawnee?

3. What is Pasquinel's relationship with Lame Beaver?

4. How is Jacques described in Chapter 5?

5. What happens after Larkin finds gold?

6. What does Skimmerhorn do to Native Americans at the end of Chapter 7?

7. Why are the white men and Native Americans going to meet in 1851?

8. Why does John Skimmerhorn hire Nacho as a cook?

9. What happens when Lame Beaver steals horses from an opposing tribe?

10. What happens when Pasquinel is shot with an arrow?

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