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

2. What happened to Jack Crabb when he finished speaking into the recording machine?
(a) He died.
(b) He remarried.
(c) He sued the reporter for defamation of character.
(d) He disappeared.

3. Who does Jack believe his sister Caroline has most likely married?
(a) Kit Karson.
(b) Wyatt Earp.
(c) Frank Delight.
(d) Wild Bill Hickok.

4. What does Lavender ask Jack to write for him?
(a) A poem to his wife.
(b) A letter home.
(c) A will.
(d) Symbols in the dirt to warn the Sioux.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What music does Jack hear as his horse rears on a morning ride in chapter 18?

3. Who does Jack come upon fighting in the streets when he arrives in Cheyenne, Wyoming?

4. How many Sioux does Jack believe the Seventh Calvary are following?

5. Who does Jack meet in Kansas City?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Custer rush the attack on the Sioux Indians?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Jack learn when he attempts to convince the leader of the scouts to tell Custer about the size of the Indian group they are following?

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

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

9. Where does Jack go after the Battle of Little Big Horn?

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

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