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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 job does Jack ask Custer for with the Seventh Calvary?

2. Who does Caroline believe Wild Bill wants to marry?

3. What is frighteningly accurate about Jack's story?

4. What is in the whiskey barrel that causes trouble in chapter 23?

5. How does Custer react when soldiers shot their own horses to take a more defensive stance?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Jack believe the prostitute is that Wild Bill has purchased for him in a local brothel?

2. Who is Caroline fighting in the streets when Jack arrives in Cheyenne, Wyoming?

3. What does Jack learn are the Seventh Calvary's two biggest enemies?

4. Why does Jack come to believe Caroline has gone insane?

5. Who attacks the Cheyenne village where Jack is living at Washita?

6. How does Jack finally become a scout? Who is he to report to?

7. Why does Jack believe Custer is not struck down by bullets and arrows as he walks on the battlefield?

8. What is the rumor about why George Custer has cut off his long hair?

9. Why does Jack believe his killing of Custer after the attack at Washita would have altered history?

10. What historic lawman does Jack meet while traveling with buffalo skinners? Whose life does this lawman save?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the purpose of this novel? Why does the fictional author/editor want to tell Jack's story? Does the fictional author/editor believe Jack's story? What would the historical impact be if Jack's story were true? How many white children might possibly have been raised by Indians in this time period? Are Jack's claims realistic?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following literary elements of this novel in detail:

1) Tone

2) Structure

3) Point of View

4) Setting.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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