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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26, Trailing the Hostiles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Amelia try to steal from Jack in chapter 21?
(a) His money purse.
(b) His deed to a gold mine.
(c) His clothing.
(d) His drink.

2. What is a Contrary?
(a) A warrior who does everything backwards.
(b) A child who refuses to behave.
(c) A husband who refuses to live with his wife.
(d) A wife who refuses to have children.

3. What is a second enemy to the Seventh Calvary's ability to survive?
(a) Themselves, infighting.
(b) The Indian scouts.
(c) The military leaders.
(d) Custer.

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

5. Who is the brave who fights the Snake people, or Comanche, in a story Old Lodge Skins tells Jack?
(a) Shadow in Sunlight.
(b) Little Man.
(c) Sunshine.
(d) Snake Brave.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Indians are preparing to battle against the Seventh Calvary?

3. Who does Old Lodge Skins tell Jack he ought to marry?

4. What does the leader of the scouts say when Jack tries to convince him to tell Custer how many Sioux they are following?

5. Who stops Jack and Caroline from crossing the river after leaving the carnage of the wagon train?

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