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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 Cheyenne encouraged to do with their horses?

2. Who steals all of Jack's gold mining supplies on the way to Colorado?

3. Why are the Cheyenne reluctant to fight the whites?

4. What does Old Lodge Skins think will eventually happen to all the whites?

5. How do Cheyenne boys learn to become men?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What crime is Jack accused of shortly after returning to the White schools?

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

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

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

8. What is important about the coffee the wagon train carries?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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