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

2. What information does the soldier, Muldoon, try to get from Jack when he returns him to white civilization?
(a) Cheyenne battle methods.
(b) The location of the Cheyenne.
(c) The Cheyenne language.
(d) His experiences living with the Cheyenne.

3. Who does Jack find among the American dead, taking a scalp in chapter 18?
(a) Shadow that Comes into Sight.
(b) Burns Red in Sun.
(c) Little Horse.
(d) Younger Bear.

4. What does Old Lodge Skins think will eventually happen to all the whites?
(a) They will all die of a terrible disease.
(b) They will kill each other.
(c) The spirits will strike them down.
(d) They will inhabit all the lands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who saves Jack from the mule skinner?

2. Why does a mule skinner attempt to whip Jack in Omaha?

3. Why does Jack engage in a fight with the Cheyenne at Plum Creek in chapter 15?

4. How does Jack feel about Mrs. Pendrake?

5. Why does Jack take the clothes of a dead American soldier?

(see the answer key)

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