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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jack engage in a fight with the Cheyenne at Plum Creek in chapter 15?
(a) In hopes of meeting some of his childhood friends.
(b) In hopes of finding his wife and child.
(c) In revenge for the death of his wife and child.
(d) In revenge for Old Lodge Skins abandoning him.

2. Why did the marriage not take place?
(a) The nurse/poet got cold feet.
(b) The nurse/poet was homosexual.
(c) The nurse/poet was killed.
(d) The nurse/poet married someone else.

3. What does Old Lodge Skins tell Jack he plans to do at Bent's Fort?
(a) Buy flour.
(b) Sign away his lands.
(c) Sign a peace treaty.
(d) Attack the soldiers.

4. How do Cheyenne think of their horses?
(a) They are Cheyenne too.
(b) They are there to transport warriors only.
(c) They are potential meat.
(d) They are Earth's children.

5. Where are Jack and his family heading on the stage coach when it is attacked by Indians in chapter 14?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Santa Fe.
(d) Ft. Leavenworth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action does Old Lodge Skins decide to take against the Whites for their attack on the Sioux village?

2. What item do members of the wagon train run out of, which they attempt to resupply in Laramie?

3. Who stops Jack and Caroline from crossing the river after leaving the carnage of the wagon train?

4. What is Pa's original profession?

5. How do Cheyenne teach their children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jack think of Mr. Pendrake's description of sin?

2. What activity does Jack participate in to help him become a man?

3. What shocks Jack about being back among the White culture?

4. How does Old Lodge Skins help his hunters kill an entire herd of antelope?

5. What treaty does Jack talk Old Lodge Skins out of signing?

6. Why did Kane, the shopkeeper, have to leave town?

7. Who adopts Jack shortly after his return to White society?

8. Why does Jack go to Colorado?

9. Who suggests that Jack take an Indian wife? Who is his intended wife?

10. What causes the Indians to attack the people of the wagon train?

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