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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 the name of Jack's new, white wife?

2. What job do the Comanches give Jack after taking him captive in chapter 12?

3. What trail does the wagon train that the Crabb family joins take?

4. Who stops Jack and Caroline from crossing the river after leaving the carnage of the wagon train?

5. Where does Jack settle in chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where does Jack go after leaving the Pendrakes?

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

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

6. What causes Younger Bear to become enraged by Jack and to exclude Jack from the boys' play?

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

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

9. How does Jack come to arrive at Old Lodge Skins' tepee again?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Bill? Why does he appear to be unwashed? What does this signify? Why does Jack not tell Bill who he is? What is the significance of the snake heads in Bill's barrel of whiskey? Why does this nearly cause the men to kill Bill? Why does Jack do nothing to stop this situation? What does Bill represent in Jack's mind?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following bands of Indians, including information related to the time period in which this novel is set:

1) Cheyenne

2) Crow

3) Sioux.

Essay Topic 3

Who is Caroline? How does Caroline help Jack escape the wagon train? Why does Caroline join the Indian band? Why does Caroline hide her gender? What does Caroline leave Jack with the Indians? What kind of jobs does Caroline try to get for herself? Why does she pick masculine oriented jobs? Who did Caroline become engaged to while working as a nurse in the Civil War? Why did this relationship end? When does Caroline go insane? Was this foreshadowed? How did Jack figure out what her state of mind was?

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