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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 Old Lodge Skins say to the man he visits on the battlefield at Little Big Horn?
(a) He is a bad man who deserved much worse.
(b) He is a bad man who has paid a debt.
(c) He is a bad man who got what he deserved.
(d) He is a bad man and he is paying for what he did to the Cheyenne.

2. Why can the fictional writer/editor not verify the validity of Jack's story?
(a) There are no pictures.
(b) There is no evidence of a Jack Crabb at Little Big Horn.
(c) There are no witnesses.
(d) There is no documentation of Jack Crabb.

3. What does Old Lodge Skins do after the ceremony?
(a) He throws a party.
(b) He smokes a peace pipe.
(c) He dies.
(d) He returns to the tribe.

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

5. What happens to Jack's horse as he rides one morning in chapter 18?
(a) It falls off a cliff.
(b) It is shot in the neck.
(c) It chips a hoof.
(d) It breaks a leg.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Jack meet while working at his new profession?

3. How does Jack avoid being killed in a gunfight with Wild Bill Hickok?

4. What job does Jack ask Custer for with the Seventh Calvary?

5. Why does Jack take the clothes of a dead American soldier?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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