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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 is Pa's original profession?

2. Who does Jack see selling liquor around the fort?

3. Who claims there is gold in Colorado?

4. How does Jack feel about Mrs. Pendrake?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What type of punishment do Cheyenne use to teach their children?

7. Where does Jack go after leaving the Pendrakes?

8. Why does Jack go to Colorado?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss one of the following themes in detail:

1) Family

2) Warring Cultures

3) Manifest Destiny

4) Lies and betrayal.

Essay Topic 3

What is unique about the narration of this novel? Why does the fictional writer/editor feel the need to make comment about the narration before and after it is presented? Whose voice does most of the story appear in? Why? What is significant about this narration? Is the narrator a reliable narrator? Is the story true? How can the story be verified? Has it been?

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