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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. Who does Jack find Mrs. Pandrake making love with?

2. What happens to Jack when his business partners disappear?

3. What does Old Lodge Skins do when a herd of antelope approach the prairie where he has been meditating?

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

5. How does Jack feel about Mrs. Pendrake?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What causes the Indians to attack the people of the wagon train?

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

4. How do the Cheyenne teach their children?

5. Where does Jack go after leaving the Pendrakes?

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

7. Who does Jack stop from attacking Younger Bear?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the war against the Indians. Why does the American government begin fighting the Indians? What precipitated the war on the Indians? In what way did the government try to make peace with the Indians? Was this successful? How much blame for the war against the Indians lies with the Indians? With the Whites? Should the Indians have been forced out of their lands? For what reason were they forced off their lands? What was the intended outcome on the part of the American government? What was the actual result?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following themes in detail:

1) Family

2) Warring Cultures

3) Manifest Destiny

4) Lies and betrayal.

Essay Topic 3

Who is Younger Bear? Why does Younger Bear dislike Jack? Why do they become enemies when they are still young boys? Why does Younger Bear bring Jack the scalp of a Crow Indian he killed? Why does Jack insist that Younger Bear whose him a life? How does Younger Bear pay Jack back that one life? What is significant about this moment between the two men? Why does Younger Bear rejoice that Jack has survived his injuries? What will happen next between these two men?

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