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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Old Lodge Skins choose this person to accompany him?
(a) He is his best friend.
(b) He is his son.
(c) He is his wife's son.
(d) He is his adopted son.

2. What happens to Jack's horse as he rides one morning in chapter 18?
(a) It breaks a leg.
(b) It chips a hoof.
(c) It falls off a cliff.
(d) It is shot in the neck.

3. How is Custer finally killed?
(a) A bullet in the head.
(b) A bullet in the heart.
(c) An arrow in the belly.
(d) A fall from his horse.

4. What Indian artifact do the Seventh Calvary come across on the trail to Little Big Horn in chapter 27?
(a) A tepee.
(b) A death scaffold.
(c) A stash of weapons.
(d) A sun dance lodge.

5. What happens to the three outlaws who robbed the train station in chapter 19?
(a) They die in a riding accident.
(b) One shoots the others.
(c) They are arrested.
(d) They drink themselves to death.

6. Where does Jack hide Sunshine and their son as the cavalry approaches?
(a) Under buffalo skins in his tepee.
(b) In a ravine.
(c) In the river.
(d) Under a trash pile.

7. What is Jack told is wrong with the guns the soldiers have?
(a) The carbines jam.
(b) There is not enough ammunition.
(c) The barrels tend to blow up.
(d) They take too long to load.

8. Who does Jack meet in Kansas City?
(a) Wild Bill Hickok.
(b) Wyatt Earp.
(c) Kit Karson.
(d) Calamity Jane.

9. Who does Caroline believe Wild Bill wants to marry?
(a) Amelia.
(b) Her.
(c) Jack.
(d) Olga.

10. What is the reason for the fight?
(a) Caroline was flirting with Wild Bill, Calamity Jane's beau.
(b) A stolen possession.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Caroline was impersonating Calamity Jane.

11. Who is this person fighting with?
(a) Sunshine.
(b) Caroline.
(c) Calamity Jane.
(d) Morning Star.

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

13. Why does Jack take the clothes of a dead American soldier?
(a) To move close enough to the soldiers to kill them.
(b) To look for his white wife.
(c) To escape the Indians.
(d) To sneak into the military camp.

14. Who is Ralph Fielding Snell?
(a) Jack's nephew.
(b) The real writer.
(c) The ficitonal writer/editor.
(d) Jack's son.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Custer offer Jack?

2. Why is Younger Bear happy Jack has survived?

3. Why does Jack run a bunco scam on a jeweler?

4. Where are Jack and his Cheyenne band camped?

5. Why is Wild Bill humiliated in his fight with Jack?

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