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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 in the whiskey barrel that causes trouble in chapter 23?

2. How is Custer finally killed?

3. What does Jack and Sunshine name their new son?

4. What type of Indian artifact do the soldier encounter on the trail of the Sioux Indians in chapter 26?

5. Why does a man pull a gun on Jack's new friend in a bar?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who cares for Jack after he collapses in a snow bank?

4. What job does Jack attempt to get with the Seventh Calvary?

5. What ritual does Jack witness Old Lodge Skins perform?

6. How does Jack wound Wild Bill's pride during a gun fight?

7. What does Old Lodge Skins say to the body of Custer?

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

9. Why does Jack steal a soldier's uniform from a dead soldier?

10. What does Jack learn about Amelia moments before she marries a state senator's son? How does he react?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who attacks the stage coach Jack and his family take to Fort Leavenworth? Why? What happens to Jack? What happens to Jack's family? Why does Jack not attempt to find and rescue his family? Where does Jack eventually find his family? Why does Jack not attempt to claim them again when he finds them? What eventually happens to Jack's wife and son?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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