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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 Lavender ask Jack to write for him?

2. How is Custer finally killed?

3. What does Wild Bill Hickok teach Jack?

4. What job does Jack ask Custer for with the Seventh Calvary?

5. How does Younger Bear's wife treat him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Custer rush the attack on the Sioux Indians?

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

4. Where does Jack go after the Battle of Little Big Horn?

5. What is significant about the name given to Jack's son with Sunshine?

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

7. What happened to Jack after telling his story to the writer/editor?

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

9. Where does Jack wake up? Who has saved his life? Why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the one of the following settings in detail:

1) Little Big Horn

2) Denver, Colorado

3) Cheyenne villages

4) Platte River valley.

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

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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