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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 is a second enemy to the Seventh Calvary's ability to survive?
(a) The Indian scouts.
(b) Themselves, infighting.
(c) The military leaders.
(d) Custer.

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 everyone to follow suit.
(c) He orders the men to remount their horses and charge.
(d) He calls a retreat.

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

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

5. Why is Wild Bill humiliated in his fight with Jack?
(a) Jack runs away.
(b) Jack shoots him.
(c) Jack refuses to fight.
(d) Jack refuses to kill him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is Custer finally killed?

3. What historical figure has an Indian name similar to Jack's son?

4. How does Younger Bear's wife treat him?

5. What does Old Lodge Skins do after the ceremony?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tactics utilized by the Sioux is Jack surprised to see?

2. Who does Jack believe the prostitute is that Wild Bill has purchased for him in a local brothel?

3. Why does Jack believe his killing of Custer after the attack at Washita would have altered history?

4. What does Old Lodge Skins say to the body of Custer?

5. Who is Caroline fighting in the streets when Jack arrives in Cheyenne, Wyoming?

6. What historic lawman does Jack meet while traveling with buffalo skinners? Whose life does this lawman save?

7. What ritual does Jack witness Old Lodge Skins perform?

8. Who is Wild Bill Hickok? Why is he afraid of being shot?

9. What scam does Jack pull in order to afford to put Amelia into a good school?

10. Where does Jack wake up? Who has saved his life? Why?

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