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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 a heemaneh?

2. Who does Old Lodge Skins tell Jack he ought to marry?

3. What does Jack promise the Pendrakes when he leaves?

4. How does Jack offend one of the Cheyenne children with whom he plays in chapter 3?

5. Why does Jack engage in a fight with the Cheyenne at Plum Creek in chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Jack after the disappearance of his family?

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

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

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

5. How do the Cheyenne teach their children?

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

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

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

9. Where does Jack go after leaving the Pendrakes?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Jack Crabbs? Why does the writer want to write a story about him? What is significant about Jack Crabbs' life? How old is Jack Crabbs? Is it possible for a person to live that long? Does Jack Crabbs age bring question to his claims? What took place in the seventy years between the end of Jack's story and his life? Why is this missing time significant? How does this missing time suggest something missing to Jack's story? Is Jack's story true?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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