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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Kane?
(a) The lay minister.
(b) Mr. Pendrake's assistant.
(c) The town doctor.
(d) Mrs. Pendrake's lover, the shopkeeper.

2. What new name does Old Lodge Skins give Jack after the Crow raid?
(a) Little Big Man.
(b) Right-Handed Wolf.
(c) Antelope Man.
(d) Partially Scalped.

3. What item does Younger Bear give Jack when he is healed?
(a) A new bow and arrow.
(b) The scalp of the Crow warrior.
(c) The arrow that killed the Crow warrior.
(d) A carving of the Crow warrior.

4. Who is Lavender?
(a) The Pendrakes' son.
(b) Jack's school friend.
(c) The doctor.
(d) A black servant of the Pendrakes.

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

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

7. How do Cheyenne punish their children?
(a) Conditioning and shame.
(b) Spankings.
(c) Time out.
(d) Scalping.

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

9. Why does Jack engage in a fight with the Cheyenne at Plum Creek in chapter 15?
(a) In revenge for Old Lodge Skins abandoning him.
(b) In hopes of finding his wife and child.
(c) In revenge for the death of his wife and child.
(d) In hopes of meeting some of his childhood friends.

10. What does Jack do after losing his family?
(a) Becomes a buffalo hunter.
(b) Becomes an alcoholic.
(c) Spends all his money looking for his family.
(d) Spends all his time hunting the Indians.

11. What trail does the wagon train that the Crabb family joins take?
(a) California Trail.
(b) Donner Party Trail.
(c) New Mexico Trail.
(d) Utah Trail.

12. Who stops Jack and Caroline from crossing the river after leaving the carnage of the wagon train?
(a) Old Lodge Skins.
(b) Younger Bear.
(c) Morning Star.
(d) Shadow that Comes into Sight.

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

14. Why does the Crow warrior stop in the middle of taking Jack's scalp?
(a) He sees Jack is white.
(b) He has pity on his age.
(c) He is attacked by Younger Bear.
(d) He finds it funny to leave the boy only half scalped.

15. What does Jack promise the Pendrakes when he leaves?
(a) He will send money.
(b) He will come back.
(c) He will live a sinfree life.
(d) He will never reveal their identities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who saves Jack from the mule skinner?

2. How does Jack feel about Mrs. Pendrake?

3. Why does Jack leave the Pendrakes?

4. How has Old Lodge Skins lost his sight?

5. Who does Lavender believe he is related to?

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