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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 does Old Lodge Skins do after the ceremony?
2. How does Younger Bear's wife treat him?
3. Who does Caroline believe Wild Bill wants to marry?
4. Who does Jack run into, selling whiskey out of a barrel?
5. What does Jack and Sunshine name their new son?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Jack go about making money to support Amelia?
2. What is the rumor about why George Custer has cut off his long hair?
3. Who does Jack discover Younger Bear has taken for a wife?
4. What tactics utilized by the Sioux is Jack surprised to see?
5. Who does Jack believe the prostitute is that Wild Bill has purchased for him in a local brothel?
6. What scam does Jack pull in order to afford to put Amelia into a good school?
7. What historic lawman does Jack meet while traveling with buffalo skinners? Whose life does this lawman save?
8. Who cares for Jack after he collapses in a snow bank?
9. What does Jack learn are the Seventh Calvary's two biggest enemies?
10. What does Jack learn when he attempts to convince the leader of the scouts to tell Custer about the size of the Indian group they are following?
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 are the Cheyenne Indians? How is there lifestyle in this novel different from that of the white man? How does Jack feel about the lifestyle he adopts with the Cheyenne? What is the Cheyenne's style of raising children? How does this differ from the style in which white men raise their children? How does this lifestyle impact Jack's growing personality? Which group of people does Jack appear to prefer in this novel?
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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