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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 say the Cheyenne women do to the corpses of their enemies?

2. How do Cheyenne punish their children?

3. What is Kane accused of doing?

4. Why does Jack leave the Pendrakes?

5. How is the Crow warrior killed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who comes to Jack's rescue during a fight with a mule skinner and helps him to recover from his illness?

2. Who does Jack stop from attacking Younger Bear?

3. Why does Old Lodge Skins tell Jack he does not have to participate in a fight with white soldiers?

4. Who is killed during a fight with Jack? What has the dead man left behind?

5. Where does Jack go after leaving the Pendrakes?

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

7. How do the Cheyenne teach their children?

8. What does Jack think of Mr. Pendrake's description of sin?

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

10. Why does Jack go to Colorado?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is George Armstrong Custer? What is significant to the reader when Custer is first introduced to the plot? Was Custer a real person? How does the author's depiction of Custer fit with what the reader may already know about him? Why does Jack want to kill Custer? What does Jack blame Custer for? Why is Custer hunting the Indians? What will the eventual outcome of this hunt be? How does the reader know this? How does this foreshadow danger and add tension to the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the one of the following settings in detail:

1) Little Big Horn

2) Denver, Colorado

3) Cheyenne villages

4) Platte River valley.

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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