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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 is shot in the neck.
(d) It falls off a cliff.

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

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

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

7. What does Old Lodge Skins' companion build after the ceremony is complete?
(a) Old Lodge Skins' death scaffold.
(b) A new family.
(c) Old Lodge Skins' new peace pipe.
(d) A new tepee.

8. Why does Jack need lots of money?
(a) To move to California.
(b) To care for Amelia.
(c) To find his family.
(d) To find Custer.

9. What music does Jack hear as his horse rears on a morning ride in chapter 18?
(a) Irish band music.
(b) A polka.
(c) Folk music.
(d) Patriotic music.

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

11. Where does Old Lodge Skins go after the Battle of Little Big Horn
(a) The Dakota Mountains.
(b) The Platt River.
(c) The Bighorn Mountains.
(d) The Missouri River Valley.

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

13. What does Jack think of Custer in his final moments?
(a) Custer made too many mistakes.
(b) Custer is a saint.
(c) Custer is a great man.
(d) Custer got what he desearved.

14. Who does Old Lodge Skins want to see on the battlefield?
(a) Custer.
(b) The Sioux warriors.
(c) Botts.
(d) Lavender.

15. Why does Jack think Custer is crazy?
(a) Because he attempts to fight hand to hand combat.
(b) Because he refuses to retreat.
(c) Because he walks the battlefield without getting hit by bullets or arrows.
(d) Because he charges alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Jack in the final moments of the battle?

2. What is one of the Seventh Calvary's enemies to survival?

3. What special permission does Sunshine give to Jack upon his return home from visiting his childhood friends in chapter 17?

4. How is Custer finally killed?

5. How does Jack avoid being killed by three outlaws during the robbery of a train station?

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