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

2. What is in the whiskey barrel that causes trouble in chapter 23?
(a) Rattlesnake heads.
(b) Fish heads.
(c) Snake eggs.
(d) Fish entrails.

3. What job does Custer offer Jack?
(a) Scout.
(b) Soldier.
(c) Herder or teamster.
(d) Cook.

4. How does Jack avoid being killed by three outlaws during the robbery of a train station?
(a) He convinces them he is an idiot, not worth killing.
(b) He convinces them he is a law officer.
(c) He convinces them he is a Cheyenne Indian.
(d) He convinces them he has a large band of outlaws they can join.

5. What happens to the three outlaws who robbed the train station in chapter 19?
(a) They are arrested.
(b) They die in a riding accident.
(c) One shoots the others.
(d) They drink themselves to death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbols are interpreted by Jack for Custer?

2. What area is known as Greasy Grass to the Native Americans?

3. How does Custer react when soldiers shot their own horses to take a more defensive stance?

4. Why does a man pull a gun on Jack's new friend in a bar?

5. Where does Jack have to take Caroline at the end of chapter 24?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Jack learn are the Seventh Calvary's two biggest enemies?

3. Who attacks the Cheyenne village where Jack is living at Washita?

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

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

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

7. Why does Jack come to believe Caroline has gone insane?

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

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

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

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