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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why was Old Lodge Skins band forced out of the larger Cheyenne band twice?
(a) Old Lodge's Skins refusal to fight the white man.
(b) Personality conflict.
(c) Power struggles.
(d) Fights over women.

6. How does Jack do when he is returned to white schools?
(a) Poorly due to language difficulties.
(b) Poorly due to education differences from the Cheyenne.
(c) Well with the help of a teacher.
(d) Well with the help of his adoptive mother.

7. Who claims there is gold in Colorado?
(a) Wyatt Earp.
(b) Crazy Charlie.
(c) Kit Karson.
(d) Wild Bill Hickcok.

8. What do the hunters do with the antelope herd?
(a) Lets them go.
(b) Kills only a few to feed the village.
(c) Kill those that were not killed in the confusion.
(d) Ignores them and hopes they will leave without trampling anyone.

9. What item do members of the wagon train run out of, which they attempt to resupply in Laramie?
(a) Rice.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Flour.

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

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

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

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

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

15. What is the name of Jack's new, white wife?
(a) Olga.
(b) Marie.
(c) Amelia.
(d) Frances.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Old Lodge Skins tell Jack he dreamed of?

2. Where does Mr. Pendrake take Jack to discuss sin?

3. What is Kane accused of doing?

4. When Jack returns from Ft. Leavenworth with help, what does he find in chapter 14?

5. What profession does Pa take on later in life that drives him a little crazy?

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