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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Jack believe Mrs. Pendrake will take as her next lover?
(a) The shoemaker.
(b) The doctor.
(c) The schoolteacher.
(d) The shopkeeper.

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

3. Who does Old Lodge Skins tell Jack he ought to marry?
(a) A Comanche captive.
(b) A heemanhe.
(c) Old Lodge Skins' young daughter.
(d) Sunshine.

4. Who eventually adopts Jack?
(a) A schoolteacher.
(b) A shopkeeper.
(c) A reverend.
(d) A military officer.

5. Who steals all of Jack's gold mining supplies on the way to Colorado?
(a) Apache.
(b) Sioux.
(c) Comanche.
(d) Cherokee.

6. What happens to Jack when his business partners disappear?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Financial ruin.
(c) Great riches.
(d) Legal troubles.

7. What illness does Jack suffer in chapter 10?
(a) Influenza.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Plague.
(d) Pnuemonia.

8. What Cheyenne encouraged to do with their horses?
(a) Speak to them.
(b) Fed and shelter them only.
(c) Paint them for decoration.
(d) Ride them often.

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

10. How does Jack feel about Mrs. Pendrake?
(a) He hates her.
(b) He thinks of her as a mother.
(c) He loves her.
(d) He is indifferent.

11. What does Old Lodge Skins tell Jack he dreamed of?
(a) Mrs. Pendrake.
(b) Leather shoes.
(c) Kane.
(d) Soda shop elephant head spigots.

12. How do Cheyenne boys learn to become men?
(a) By learning great wisdom.
(b) By emulating men.
(c) By growing older.
(d) By killing the white man.

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

14. How do Cheyenne think of their horses?
(a) They are there to transport warriors only.
(b) They are Earth's children.
(c) They are potential meat.
(d) They are Cheyenne too.

15. Why does Jack get into a fight with one of the school children?
(a) The boy is smarter than Jack.
(b) The boy teases Jack.
(c) Jack is only playing in the Cheyenne way.
(d) Jack is unhappy in white society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kane accused of doing?

2. What does Jack do after losing his family?

3. What information does the soldier, Muldoon, try to get from Jack when he returns him to white civilization?

4. Who does Jack fight at Plum Creek?

5. Who possibly is the nurse/poet Caroline became engaged to during the Civil War?

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