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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of Indian artifact do the soldier encounter on the trail of the Sioux Indians in chapter 26?
(a) Death scaffold.
(b) Tepees.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Cooking implements.

2. Where does Jack travel to to join the Seventh Calvary?
(a) Washita River.
(b) Platt River.
(c) Missouri River.
(d) Powder River.

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

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

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

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

7. What profession does Jack turn to after gambling and bunco scams?
(a) Mule skinning.
(b) Mercantile owner.
(c) Buffalo hunting.
(d) Bank robbing.

8. Who does Jack come upon fighting in the streets when he arrives in Cheyenne, Wyoming?
(a) Younger Bear.
(b) Gustav.
(c) Caroline.
(d) Olga.

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

10. Where is Jack when he wakes?
(a) Old Lodge Skins' tepee.
(b) A hotel room.
(c) A military hospital.
(d) A prisoner tepee.

11. Why does a man pull a gun on Jack's new friend in a bar?
(a) Because Wild Bill shot the man's brother.
(b) Because Wyatt Earp once arrested him.
(c) Becaue Calamity Jane was rude to him once.
(d) Because Kit Karson wounded him in a fight.

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

13. Where are Jack and his Cheyenne band camped?
(a) South Dakota Mountains.
(b) Washita River.
(c) Bighorn Mountains.
(d) Platt River.

14. What does Old Lodge Skins do after the ceremony?
(a) He throws a party.
(b) He returns to the tribe.
(c) He dies.
(d) He smokes a peace pipe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jack find among the American dead, taking a scalp in chapter 18?

2. What area is known as Greasy Grass to the Native Americans?

3. Who is Amelia to marry?

4. What does Jack think of Custer in his final moments?

5. What causes Jack's new friend to have fits of fright?

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