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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. What does Jack think of Mr. Pendrake's sins?

2. What part of an antelope does one of the braves force Jack to eat?

3. What does Old Lodge Skins tell Jack he plans to do at Bent's Fort?

4. What character does Jack pretend to be to keep some Comanche Indians from killing him in chapter 12?

5. How has Old Lodge Skins lost his sight?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What treaty does Jack talk Old Lodge Skins out of signing?

3. How do the Cheyenne teach their children?

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

5. What happens to Jack's family during a stage coach ride to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas?

6. Who suggests that Jack take an Indian wife? Who is his intended wife?

7. Why did Kane, the shopkeeper, have to leave town?

8. Who does Jack stop from attacking Younger Bear?

9. Why is Old Lodge Skins' band of Cheyenne separated from the entire Cheyenne tribe?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following historical events as they appear in this novel and the reality of each event:

1) Sand River Massacre

2) Battle at Washita

3) Battle of Little Big Horn.

Essay Topic 2

Who are the Cheyenne Indians? How is there lifestyle in this novel different from that of the white man? How does Jack feel about the lifestyle he adopts with the Cheyenne? What is the Cheyenne's style of raising children? How does this differ from the style in which white men raise their children? How does this lifestyle impact Jack's growing personality? Which group of people does Jack appear to prefer in this novel?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Bill? Why does he appear to be unwashed? What does this signify? Why does Jack not tell Bill who he is? What is the significance of the snake heads in Bill's barrel of whiskey? Why does this nearly cause the men to kill Bill? Why does Jack do nothing to stop this situation? What does Bill represent in Jack's mind?

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