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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 river do Caroline and Jack attempt to cross after leaving the carnage of the wagon train?
(a) Big Horn.
(b) Platte.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Missouri.

2. What Indians are preparing to battle against the Seventh Calvary?
(a) Sioux and Apache.
(b) Cherokee and Crow.
(c) Sioux and Cheyenne.
(d) Apache and Comanche.

3. Why does a man pull a gun on Jack's new friend in a bar?
(a) Because Kit Karson wounded him in a fight.
(b) Becaue Calamity Jane was rude to him once.
(c) Because Wild Bill shot the man's brother.
(d) Because Wyatt Earp once arrested him.

4. What does Wild Bill Hickok teach Jack?
(a) How to play poker.
(b) How to rob banks.
(c) How to use a gun.
(d) How to fight with a knife.

5. Who does Jack find in the bushes?
(a) His wife.
(b) Younger Bear.
(c) Sunshine.
(d) Burns Red in the Sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Old Lodge Skins lost his sight?

2. What expedition does Lavender claim one of his relatives traveled with?

3. Why did the marriage not take place?

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

5. Why are the Cheyenne reluctant to fight the whites?

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