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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. What is a heemaneh?
(a) Half man, half woman.
(b) A personal servant.
(c) A homosexual woman.
(d) A Cheyenne woman.

2. How does Jack feel about Mrs. Pendrake?
(a) He loves her.
(b) He is indifferent.
(c) He thinks of her as a mother.
(d) He hates her.

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

4. What action does Old Lodge Skins decide to take against the Whites for their attack on the Sioux village?
(a) Run them off their land.
(b) Ignore them.
(c) Attack them.
(d) Complain to the soldiers.

5. What does Jack do after losing his family?
(a) Becomes an alcoholic.
(b) Becomes a buffalo hunter.
(c) Spends all his money looking for his family.
(d) Spends all his time hunting the Indians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who acts as an heemaneh to Jack?

2. Who does Jack vow to kill for the attack on the Cheyenne at Washita River?

3. What does Jack allow Muldoon to believe about him in chapter 8?

4. Why did the Whites attack a Sioux village in chapter 5?

5. Where does Jack hide Sunshine and their son as the cavalry approaches?

(see the answer key)

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