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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Custer react when soldiers shot their own horses to take a more defensive stance?
(a) He threatens to court martial them.
(b) He orders the men to remount their horses and charge.
(c) He calls a retreat.
(d) He orders everyone to follow suit.

3. Who does Jack meet while working at his new profession?
(a) Wild Bill Hickok.
(b) Kit Karson.
(c) Wyatt Earp.
(d) Calamity Jane.

4. What does Old Lodge Skins say to the man he visits on the battlefield at Little Big Horn?
(a) He is a bad man who deserved much worse.
(b) He is a bad man who got what he deserved.
(c) He is a bad man and he is paying for what he did to the Cheyenne.
(d) He is a bad man who has paid a debt.

5. Why does Jack run a bunco scam on a jeweler?
(a) To pay for his search for his family.
(b) To pay Wild Bill back the money he cheated him out of at cards.
(c) To raise money to send Amelia to a good school.
(d) To raise money for Caroline.

6. Who does Jack vow to kill for the attack on the Cheyenne at Washita River?
(a) Younger Bear.
(b) George Custer.
(c) Old Lodge Skins.
(d) George Patton.

7. Who does Old Lodge Skins take with him on his journey?
(a) Younger Bear.
(b) Jack.
(c) Burns Red in Sun.
(d) Little Horse.

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

9. What tactics do the Sioux use as the Battle of Little Big Horn begins?
(a) Frontal assault.
(b) Guerilla tactics.
(c) Military organization.
(d) Divide and concur.

10. What is in the whiskey barrel that causes trouble in chapter 23?
(a) Snake eggs.
(b) Rattlesnake heads.
(c) Fish entrails.
(d) Fish heads.

11. What special permission does Sunshine give to Jack upon his return home from visiting his childhood friends in chapter 17?
(a) To go on a long trip.
(b) To return to white civilization.
(c) To take a second wife.
(d) To sleep with her three sisters.

12. Why is Custer in a hurry to engage the Sioux?
(a) To keep travelers in the area safe.
(b) To keep the Sioux from disappearing.
(c) To engage before a rival arrives.
(d) To engage before another force arrives and engages them.

13. What does Wild Bill Hickok teach Jack?
(a) How to play poker.
(b) How to use a gun.
(c) How to fight with a knife.
(d) How to rob banks.

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

15. How does Jack avoid being killed by three outlaws during the robbery of a train station?
(a) He convinces them he has a large band of outlaws they can join.
(b) He convinces them he is a Cheyenne Indian.
(c) He convinces them he is a law officer.
(d) He convinces them he is an idiot, not worth killing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What music does Jack hear as his horse rears on a morning ride in chapter 18?

2. Who does Jack rediscover while out with his new friend in chapter 20?

3. Where does Jack's friend invite him after a meal in a restaurant in chapter 20?

4. Who does Jack come upon fighting in the streets when he arrives in Cheyenne, Wyoming?

5. Who does Jack discover Younger Bear is married to?

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