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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 buffaloing?
(a) Killing buffalo.
(b) Skinning buffalo.
(c) Hitting someone on the head with the butt of a gun.
(d) Hitting someone on the knee with the handle of a knife.

2. How is Custer finally killed?
(a) A bullet in the heart.
(b) A fall from his horse.
(c) An arrow in the belly.
(d) A bullet in the head.

3. Who does Old Lodge Skins want to see on the battlefield?
(a) Custer.
(b) Botts.
(c) Lavender.
(d) The Sioux warriors.

4. Who does Jack meet in Kansas City?
(a) Wild Bill Hickok.
(b) Wyatt Earp.
(c) Kit Karson.
(d) Calamity Jane.

5. Why does Jack take the clothes of a dead American soldier?
(a) To sneak into the military camp.
(b) To escape the Indians.
(c) To move close enough to the soldiers to kill them.
(d) To look for his white wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jack told is wrong with the guns the soldiers have?

2. What happens to Jack in the final moments of the battle?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the writer/editor say about his opinion of the truthfulness of Jack's story?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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