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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Cheyenne teach their children?
(a) Through organized classes.
(b) Through storytelling.
(c) Through example.
(d) Through language.

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

3. How does Jack offend one of the Cheyenne children with whom he plays in chapter 3?
(a) By showing concern for a wound he caused.
(b) By hitting the boy in the nose.
(c) By playing their games the wrong way.
(d) By refusing to acknowledge an act of kindness.

4. What does tatoimana mean?
(a) Banned Folks.
(b) Ugly Folks.
(c) Brave Folks.
(d) Shy Folks.

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

6. What is Kane accused of doing?
(a) Stealing.
(b) Cheating at poker.
(c) Impregnating a sixteen year old girl.
(d) Having an affair with a married woman.

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

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

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

10. What does Old Lodge Skins think will eventually happen to all the whites?
(a) They will all die of a terrible disease.
(b) They will inhabit all the lands.
(c) They will kill each other.
(d) The spirits will strike them down.

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

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

13. Why does Jack believe the Cheyenne prefer larger women?
(a) Due to cold and starvation.
(b) Due to a physical attraction.
(c) Due to their ability to care for themselves.
(d) Due to their lack of sexual desire.

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

15. Who does Jack find Mrs. Pandrake making love with?
(a) The shopkeeper.
(b) Mr. Pendrake.
(c) The shoemaker.
(d) Lavender.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lavender want to run away?

2. Where does Jack settle in chapter 14?

3. How has Old Lodge Skins lost his sight?

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

5. Who does Jack believe Mrs. Pendrake will take as her next lover?

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