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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 5 October, 8 October, 10 October and 14 October 1875.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the President's Indian Peace Plan?
(a) It involves sending the Cheyenne children to church-affiliated boarding schools.
(b) It will teach Indians to live like white people.
(c) It involves coming to a peaceful agreement with the Indian leaders.
(d) It will send Indian representatives to live among white people.

2. How does May describe the Indian's hunting?
(a) Necessary but not particularly challenging.
(b) Haphazard and avoided by most.
(c) Dangerous and necessary to the survival of the tribe.
(d) Frivolous and done for sport.

3. How does Reverend Hare's performance on the night of the wild party affect the way the Indians feel about him?
(a) He is regarded as a coward.
(b) He is banished from the camp.
(c) He is still given the respect due a holy man.
(d) Nobody remembers anything.

4. What does May observe about the roles of men and women in the tribe?
(a) Women are seen as the spiritual leaders of the tribe.
(b) Women will never reach the status of equality found in the white man's world.
(c) Women's views are treated with respect.
(d) Women are worshipped because of their ability to have children.

5. How does May describe the camp that is set up at the end of each day of travel?
(a) Very small and compact for safety.
(b) Ordered and exactly like the camp the day before.
(c) Casual so that it is as easy as possible on everyone.
(d) Haphazard because they are not terribly organized in their travel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does May observe about the women who came to the tribe with her?

2. What does the tribal seer see for the future of the tribe?

3. When Narcissa fails at converting the tribe, what does she try to do?

4. What does May do in the first morning with the Indian tribe that amuses the Indians?

5. The women try to keep in touch but are often too tired to do so. When May finally sees Phemie again, what does Phemie tell her?

(see the answer key)

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