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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 music does Jack hear as his horse rears on a morning ride in chapter 18?
(a) Irish band music.
(b) Folk music.
(c) Patriotic music.
(d) A polka.

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

3. Why does a mule skinner attempt to whip Jack in Omaha?
(a) Jack hit him first.
(b) Jack insulted him.
(c) Jack is pretending to be a mule.
(d) Jack insulted his wife.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the marriage not take place?

2. What does Old Lodge Skins think will eventually happen to all the whites?

3. What happens to Jack's horse as he rides one morning in chapter 18?

4. What does Jack do after losing his family?

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

(see the answer key)

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