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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 life.
(b) A drink.
(c) A new pony.
(d) A new hat.

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

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

4. Why does Caroline decide to leave the Cheyenne village?
(a) The Cheyenne are unwelcoming.
(b) She wants to live among white civilization.
(c) She wants to find her mother.
(d) The Cheyenne cannot be trusted.

5. What is a Contrary?
(a) A husband who refuses to live with his wife.
(b) A child who refuses to behave.
(c) A wife who refuses to have children.
(d) A warrior who does everything backwards.

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

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

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

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

10. What language does Pa believe the Native Americans speak?
(a) Latin.
(b) Hebrew.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Italian.

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

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

13. What does Old Lodge Skins have a dream about?
(a) Rain.
(b) Antelope.
(c) Jack.
(d) The white soldiers.

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

15. What else does Mr. Pendrake warn Jack about in their discussion about sin?
(a) The temptation of rich food.
(b) The temptation of gambling.
(c) The temptation of women.
(d) The temptation of alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Crow warrior stop in the middle of taking Jack's scalp?

2. What Cheyenne encouraged to do with their horses?

3. Why was Old Lodge Skins band forced out of the larger Cheyenne band twice?

4. Where are Jack and his family heading on the stage coach when it is attacked by Indians in chapter 14?

5. What does Old Lodge Skins tell Jack he plans to do at Bent's Fort?

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