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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21, My Niece Amelia.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Jack see selling liquor around the fort?
(a) His mother.
(b) His sister, Caroline.
(c) His niece, Amelia.
(d) His brother, Bill.

2. Why does Jack leave the Pendrakes?
(a) Abuse by Mr. Pendrake.
(b) Mrs. Pendrake's multiple affairs.
(c) Abuse by Mrs. Pendrake.
(d) Mr. Pendrake's multiple affairs.

3. What part of an antelope does one of the braves force Jack to eat?
(a) Intestine.
(b) Heart.
(c) Liver.
(d) Lung.

4. Who does Jack meet in Kansas City?
(a) Calamity Jane.
(b) Wild Bill Hickok.
(c) Wyatt Earp.
(d) Kit Karson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Jack's new friend to have fits of fright?

2. Who does Jack rediscover while out with his new friend in chapter 20?

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

4. What river do Caroline and Jack attempt to cross after leaving the carnage of the wagon train?

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

(see the answer key)

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