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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 does Amelia tell Jack before the wedding?
(a) She was never a prostitute.
(b) She is his daughter.
(c) She is not his niece.
(d) She is not a white woman.

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

3. Why has Younger Bear saved Jack?
(a) To save a friend.
(b) To protect his reputation as a warrior.
(c) To repay a debt.
(d) To win Old Lodge Skins' affection.

4. Who stops the fight that nearly leads to the whiskey sellers death?
(a) Wild Bill.
(b) Wyatt Earp.
(c) Younger Bear.
(d) Jack.

5. What is the reason for the fight?
(a) Caroline was flirting with Wild Bill, Calamity Jane's beau.
(b) A stolen possession.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Caroline was impersonating Calamity Jane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lavender ask Jack to write for him?

2. What old friend does Jack meet with on his way to the Seventh Calvary's camp in chapter 25?

3. Why does Jack find himself in Kansas City?

4. What tactics do the Sioux use as the Battle of Little Big Horn begins?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Jack's intention when he takes Amelia from the brothel?

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

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

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

7. Who does Jack discover Younger Bear has taken for a wife?

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

9. How does Jack wound Wild Bill's pride during a gun fight?

10. What happened to Jack after telling his story to the writer/editor?

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