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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 happens to Jack's horse as he rides one morning in chapter 18?
(a) It is shot in the neck.
(b) It chips a hoof.
(c) It falls off a cliff.
(d) It breaks a leg.

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

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did the marriage not take place?

3. Who does Jack see selling liquor around the fort?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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