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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. What new name does Old Lodge Skins give Jack after the Crow raid?
(a) Partially Scalped.
(b) Right-Handed Wolf.
(c) Antelope Man.
(d) Little Big Man.

2. How do Cheyenne boys learn to become men?
(a) By emulating men.
(b) By learning great wisdom.
(c) By killing the white man.
(d) By growing older.

3. What does Old Lodge Skins tell Jack he dreamed of?
(a) Leather shoes.
(b) Kane.
(c) Soda shop elephant head spigots.
(d) Mrs. Pendrake.

4. Who acts as an heemaneh to Jack?
(a) A civilian shopkeeper.
(b) A military chaplain.
(c) His brother, Bill.
(d) His sister, Caroline.

5. How has Old Lodge Skins lost his sight?
(a) A hunting injury.
(b) Old age.
(c) Sand Creek Massacre.
(d) A fight with Younger Bear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack tell Younger Bear that he owes Jack?

2. Where does Jack settle in chapter 14?

3. What does Jack promise the Pendrakes when he leaves?

4. Who does Old Lodge Skins tell Jack he ought to marry?

5. What character does Jack pretend to be to keep some Comanche Indians from killing him in chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who comes to Jack's rescue during a fight with a mule skinner and helps him to recover from his illness?

2. What causes Younger Bear to become enraged by Jack and to exclude Jack from the boys' play?

3. What type of punishment do Cheyenne use to teach their children?

4. What happens to Jack's family during a stage coach ride to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas?

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

6. What is important about the coffee the wagon train carries?

7. Why is Old Lodge Skins' band of Cheyenne separated from the entire Cheyenne tribe?

8. What is the significance of butchering and cooking the dog by the Cheyenne woman?

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

10. Why does Younger Bear give Jack a Crow warrior's scalp? How does Jack respond?

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