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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, The Big Medicine of Long Hair.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the marriage not take place?
(a) The nurse/poet got cold feet.
(b) The nurse/poet was killed.
(c) The nurse/poet married someone else.
(d) The nurse/poet was homosexual.

2. Who possibly is the nurse/poet Caroline became engaged to during the Civil War?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Herman Melville.
(c) Sydney Lanier.
(d) James Ryder Randall.

3. Why did the Whites attack a Sioux village in chapter 5?
(a) The Sioux stole their horses.
(b) The Sioux trespassed on their farms.
(c) The Sioux killed a sick cow.
(d) The Sioux attacked a wagon train.

4. Why does Jack take the clothes of a dead American soldier?
(a) To sneak into the military camp.
(b) To escape the Indians.
(c) To move close enough to the soldiers to kill them.
(d) To look for his white wife.

5. Who does Jack see selling liquor around the fort?
(a) His niece, Amelia.
(b) His sister, Caroline.
(c) His mother.
(d) His brother, Bill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kane accused of doing?

2. What music does Jack hear as his horse rears on a morning ride in chapter 18?

3. Who does Jack believe Mrs. Pendrake will take as her next lover?

4. What action does Old Lodge Skins decide to take against the Whites for their attack on the Sioux village?

5. Who acts as an heemaneh to Jack?

(see the answer key)

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