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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Old Lodge Skins lost his sight?

2. Where does Jack settle in chapter 14?

3. Why does Jack believe the Cheyenne prefer larger women?

4. What does Old Lodge Skins think will eventually happen to all the whites?

5. What item do members of the wagon train run out of, which they attempt to resupply in Laramie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of butchering and cooking the dog by the Cheyenne woman?

2. What does Jack see when he follows Mrs. Pendrake to the back of the store?

3. How does Old Lodge Skins help his hunters kill an entire herd of antelope?

4. Why does Younger Bear give Jack a Crow warrior's scalp? How does Jack respond?

5. Why does Jack go to Colorado?

6. What activity does Jack participate in to help him become a man?

7. What causes Younger Bear to become enraged by Jack and to exclude Jack from the boys' play?

8. What shocks Jack about being back among the White culture?

9. Why does Jack decide to leave the Pendrake family?

10. What happens to the business Jack builds in Denver?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who attacks the stage coach Jack and his family take to Fort Leavenworth? Why? What happens to Jack? What happens to Jack's family? Why does Jack not attempt to find and rescue his family? Where does Jack eventually find his family? Why does Jack not attempt to claim them again when he finds them? What eventually happens to Jack's wife and son?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following literary elements of this novel in detail:

1) Tone

2) Structure

3) Point of View

4) Setting.

Essay Topic 3

Who is Old Lodge Skins? How did Jack come to live with Old Lodge Skins and his band of Cheyenne Indians? Why did Old Lodge Skins accept and adopt a white child as his own? Why did Old Lodge Skins refuse to be a warrior chief? Did everyone agree with Old Lodge Skins' decisions and actions? What impact did Old Lodge Skins' teachings and advice have on Jack during and after his childhood? Why did Old Lodge Skins choose Jack to accompany him in his death ritual?

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