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

2. What is Kane accused of doing?
(a) Cheating at poker.
(b) Impregnating a sixteen year old girl.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Having an affair with a married woman.

3. Who acts as an heemaneh to Jack?
(a) His sister, Caroline.
(b) A civilian shopkeeper.
(c) His brother, Bill.
(d) A military chaplain.

4. What does Jack allow Muldoon to believe about him in chapter 8?
(a) That he does not understand English anymore.
(b) That he is deaf.
(c) That he is blind.
(d) That is an idiot from torture.

5. Why does Jack engage in a fight with the Cheyenne at Plum Creek in chapter 15?
(a) In revenge for the death of his wife and child.
(b) In revenge for Old Lodge Skins abandoning him.
(c) In hopes of finding his wife and child.
(d) In hopes of meeting some of his childhood friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who eventually adopts Jack?

2. Who saves Jack from the mule skinner?

3. Why does Jack leave the Pendrakes?

4. How do Cheyenne boys learn to become men?

5. Who does Jack find among the American dead, taking a scalp in chapter 18?

(see the answer key)

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