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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. Where does Jack hide Sunshine and their son as the cavalry approaches?
(a) Under a trash pile.
(b) In the river.
(c) In a ravine.
(d) Under buffalo skins in his tepee.

2. What happens to Jack in the final moments of the battle?
(a) He is shot in the head.
(b) He is hit with a volley of arrows.
(c) He is hit over the head.
(d) He is scalped.

3. How does Younger Bear's wife treat him?
(a) She is docile and quiet.
(b) She is reluctant to be touched.
(c) She is affectionate.
(d) She often verbally abuses him.

4. Who does everyone believe Wild Bill Hickok is going to marry?
(a) Caroline.
(b) Annie Oakley.
(c) A society woman.
(d) Calamity Jane.

5. What does Old Lodge Skins' companion build after the ceremony is complete?
(a) Old Lodge Skins' new peace pipe.
(b) A new tepee.
(c) Old Lodge Skins' death scaffold.
(d) A new family.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why has Younger Bear saved Jack?

3. What happens to Jack's horse as he rides one morning in chapter 18?

4. Why does Jack need lots of money?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about the name given to Jack's son with Sunshine?

2. How does Jack go about making money to support Amelia?

3. Why does Jack steal a soldier's uniform from a dead soldier?

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

5. Who cares for Jack after he collapses in a snow bank?

6. How does Jack finally become a scout? Who is he to report to?

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

8. What job does Jack attempt to get with the Seventh Calvary?

9. Why does Jack believe Custer is not struck down by bullets and arrows as he walks on the battlefield?

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

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