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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 sewing circle that the officers' wives had.
(b) The long walks in the common area.
(c) The communal meals held in the officers' dining hall.
(d) The reading library near the officers' quarters.

2. As the women prepare to leave with the Indians, who joins them?
(a) The soldiers who will take them back to the fort.
(b) The Episcopalian Reverend Hare.
(c) Captain Bourke.
(d) Traders.

3. What does Captain Bourke say to May the evening before leaving the women with the Cheyenne?
(a) He insists that she return to the fort every month.
(b) He feels she should go to one of the other tribes.
(c) He forbids her to go with the Indians.
(d) He insists that she return to her family immediately.

4. During her "honeymoon," what does May learn to do?
(a) Butcher, skin, and dress an animal.
(b) Shoot game.
(c) Build a stand to use to hunt.
(d) Identify safe things to eat.

5. Who is Lydia Bradley?
(a) A cold and cruel woman.
(b) A foolish, silly woman.
(c) A charming, well-educated woman.
(d) A rather boring, uninteresting young woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jules Seminole?

2. What does May believe after her honeymoon with Chief Little Wolf?

3. What amusing incident occurs while the women are being chosen by their Indian husbands-to-be?

4. What do May and John Bourke do at the end of their conversation the day before the women are to be left with the Cheyenne?

5. What happens to Whistling Elk, Ada Ware's husband, who shoots and kills Runs From Crow, Marie Blanche's husband?

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