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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 8 August, 9 August and 11 August 1875.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the one diversion the women are able to enjoy at Fort Laramie?
(a) The communal meals held in the officers' dining hall.
(b) The sewing circle that the officers' wives had.
(c) The reading library near the officers' quarters.
(d) The long walks in the common area.

2. What amusing incident occurs while the women are being chosen by their Indian husbands-to-be?
(a) Some of the women run away.
(b) Daisy's dog bites the Indian who treated him roughly.
(c) The horses being traded for the women escape.
(d) Helen runs after a new bird and trips into a pool of water.

3. What does May tell Harry in a letter?
(a) She knows he is probably dead.
(b) She knows he sold her out to her father for money and a job.
(c) She is glad to be rid of him because she knows he cheated on her.
(d) She will never know if he cooperated with her father or loves her.

4. During the dinner conversation, Lydia Bradley tries to turn the conversation to what subject?
(a) The need for more gardens at the fort.
(b) Her new dress and the latest New York fashion.
(c) The ladies' sewing circle.
(d) Her new hat and the latest New York fashion.

5. May and Captain Bourke find they both share an interest in what subject?
(a) Milton.
(b) Horses.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) The Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "Seano?"

2. What happens to the women who try to escape from the camp?

3. What was the major issue regarding Sara's burial?

4. What is Captain Bourke's comment about May Dodd's suggestion that the woman might be able to bring an appreciation for white civilization to the savages?

5. Two days after May meets Captain Bourke, where does he invite her to do?

(see the answer key)

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