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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 18 May and 19 May, 21 May and 22 May 1875.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the women learn as they get near the Indians?
(a) Enemy Sioux Indians want to kidnap the woman.
(b) A month earlier, Lt. Levi Robinson was murdered by Sioux.
(c) Enemy Sioux Indians want to kill the women.
(d) Several people on previous trips have gotten lost in the wild, unexplored territory.

2. What is Captain Bourke disturbed to learn about what the women don't know?
(a) That they could be abandoned if they were not selected.
(b) That they would not be able to return to the fort for their safety.
(c) They had no way of ending their agreement.
(d) They were not given information about the life they would face.

3. What two things does May stop doing because of the cruel way she is treated while staying with the family of Lieutenant James?
(a) She stops writing in her journal and stops paying any attention to the soldier's requests.
(b) She refuses to eat and stops writing in her journal.
(c) She refuses to eat and stops taking walks.
(d) She stops writing in her journal and stops taking walks.

4. How do the women feel about staying with Phemie?
(a) Many refuse to room with Phemie because the Negro families are cruel to the white women.
(b) They like to room with Phemie because she gets the best treatment.
(c) Many refuse to room with Phemie because she is a Negro.
(d) They don't have any particular feeling about it.

5. How does May describe Captain Bourke?
(a) Tied up by the running of the fort.
(b) Not at all interested in the group of women.
(c) A handsome man with the romantic look of a poet.
(d) Strictly a soldier with no interest in any other subject.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How does May describe the cowboys she sees?

3. What does Captain Bourke say to May the evening before leaving the women with the Cheyenne?

4. As the women approach the Indian tribe, what do they learn about the Indians?

5. How does May describe herself during a conversation at the dinner table about religion?

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