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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jack tell Younger Bear that he owes Jack?
(a) A drink.
(b) A new pony.
(c) A life.
(d) A new hat.

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

3. What job does Jack take soon after arriving in this new city?
(a) Mule skinner.
(b) Railroad worker.
(c) Guide for a mule train.
(d) Buffalo hunter.

4. What does Old Lodge Skins tell Jack he plans to do at Bent's Fort?
(a) Sign a peace treaty.
(b) Sign away his lands.
(c) Attack the soldiers.
(d) Buy flour.

5. Why did the marriage not take place?
(a) The nurse/poet was killed.
(b) The nurse/poet married someone else.
(c) The nurse/poet got cold feet.
(d) The nurse/poet was homosexual.

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

7. What is the name of Jack's son?
(a) Jean Luc.
(b) Gustav.
(c) Fredricko.
(d) Dwayne.

8. How does Jack convince Burns Red in the Sun of his true identity?
(a) Shows him a birthmark.
(b) Tells him of a gift horse he gave him at Powder River.
(c) Tells him his nickname.
(d) Shows him a scar.

9. Who does Lavender believe he is related to?
(a) President Lincoln.
(b) Crow Indians.
(c) Cheyenne Indians.
(d) Jack.

10. What information does the soldier, Muldoon, try to get from Jack when he returns him to white civilization?
(a) Cheyenne battle methods.
(b) His experiences living with the Cheyenne.
(c) The location of the Cheyenne.
(d) The Cheyenne language.

11. Who saves Jack from the mule skinner?
(a) Old Lodge Skins.
(b) Burns Red in the Sun.
(c) Caroline.
(d) Bill.

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

13. What does Jack say the Cheyenne women do to the corpses of their enemies?
(a) Undress them and steal their clothing.
(b) Bury them.
(c) Cry over them.
(d) Mutilate the bodies and take parts for souvenirs.

14. What gift does Jack give to Old Lodge Skins?
(a) Top hat.
(b) Cowboy hat.
(c) Derby.
(d) Sombrero.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Cheyenne boys learn to become men?

2. What item does Caroline use to protect herself and her mother from the Indians?

3. What is a name the offended child gives to Jack out of anger for his actions?

4. What does Old Lodge Skins think will eventually happen to all the whites?

5. Why does Jack engage in a fight with the Cheyenne at Plum Creek in chapter 15?

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