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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Indians are preparing to battle against the Seventh Calvary?
(a) Apache and Comanche.
(b) Sioux and Apache.
(c) Cherokee and Crow.
(d) Sioux and Cheyenne.

2. Who does Jack discover Younger Bear is married to?
(a) Little Horse.
(b) A white woman, Jack's first wife.
(c) Sunshine.
(d) A Cherokee woman.

3. What happens to Jack in the final moments of the battle?
(a) He is hit over the head.
(b) He is scalped.
(c) He is shot in the head.
(d) He is hit with a volley of arrows.

4. What does Jack believe happened to Sunshine and their son?
(a) They escaped with another Cheyenne band.
(b) They were taken captive.
(c) They were murdered.
(d) They slipped past the soldiers.

5. What historical figure has an Indian name similar to Jack's son?
(a) George Armstrong Custer.
(b) Calamity Jane.
(c) Wild Bill Hickok.
(d) Kit Karson.

6. What happened to Jack Crabb when he finished speaking into the recording machine?
(a) He died.
(b) He disappeared.
(c) He remarried.
(d) He sued the reporter for defamation of character.

7. Who helps Jack when he collapses while traveling east along the Cimmaron?
(a) A Creek family.
(b) A Cherokee family.
(c) A Cheyenne familiy.
(d) A Crow family.

8. Why is Younger Bear happy Jack has survived?
(a) Because he loves him like a brother.
(b) Because he has shown himself to be brave.
(c) Because now he can kill him.
(d) Because he enjoys their rivalry.

9. Why can the fictional writer/editor not verify the validity of Jack's story?
(a) There are no pictures.
(b) There is no evidence of a Jack Crabb at Little Big Horn.
(c) There is no documentation of Jack Crabb.
(d) There are no witnesses.

10. What is frighteningly accurate about Jack's story?
(a) The location of Custer's last stand.
(b) The names of the historic figures Jack met.
(c) The time and place.
(d) The details of the Battle of Little Big Horn.

11. Why has Younger Bear saved Jack?
(a) To repay a debt.
(b) To win Old Lodge Skins' affection.
(c) To save a friend.
(d) To protect his reputation as a warrior.

12. What area is known as Greasy Grass to the Native Americans?
(a) South Dakota Mountain Range.
(b) Little Bighorn River.
(c) Platt River Valley.
(d) Missouri River Valley.

13. Why does Jack find himself in Kansas City?
(a) He is searching for his Indian wife.
(b) He is searching for Caroline.
(c) He is searching for his white wife.
(d) He is searching for Custer.

14. What is one of the Seventh Calvary's enemies to survival?
(a) The Sioux Indians.
(b) The Apache Indians.
(c) The Comanche Indians.
(d) The Crow Indians.

15. Who does Jack learn has died?
(a) Sunshine.
(b) Caroline.
(c) Olga.
(d) Mrs. Pendrake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jack believe his sister Caroline has most likely married?

2. What job does Custer offer Jack?

3. Who stops the fight that nearly leads to the whiskey sellers death?

4. What does Wild Bill Hickok teach Jack?

5. Why did Custer cut off his hair?

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