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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is suspicious about Pasquinel's marriage to Clay Basket?

2. How old is Mahlon?

3. What does Chapter 2 describe about the mountains?

4. What does Lame Beaver tell his daughter about Pasquinel in Chapter 5?

5. What does McKeag do to help Clay Basket after Pasquinel's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Levi decide to turn around and go back east?

2. In Chapter 1, what task is Dr. Lewis Vernor asked to do?

3. What does Oliver Seccumbe propose to Levi in Chapter 8?

4. What happens when Lame Beaver fights Never-Death?

5. What does John Skimmerhorn do when he meets up with Lost Eagle's tribe in Chapter 8?

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

7. What happens after Pasquinel dies?

8. According to the narrator, what happened to the rattlesnake when man encountered it in the American west?

9. What is Pasquinel's relationship with Brockweiss?

10. How does Levi earn the right to make a marriage certificate for him and Lucinda?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze how the descriptions of Native American customs and beliefs are used as symbolic representations of the white man's world.

Essay Topic 2

What role do women in play in this novel? How do they help to develop the plot?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the fulfillment of race roles in this novel. Consider the lives of the characters who are half Native American.

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