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

2. 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.

3. Sitting in the tipi at the end of her arrival day in camp, what does May realize?
(a) She is looking forward to the adventure.
(b) She has always been foolish and impetuous.
(c) Perhaps the insane asylum was not as bad as she thought.
(d) This is a tremendous opportunity even though it is frightening.

4. What does May believe happened during the wedding ceremony?
(a) She was drugged as part of the ceremony.
(b) The ceremony was a secret affair.
(c) The men exchanged wives.
(d) Some of the women were forced to leave.

5. 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 refuses to eat and stops taking walks.
(b) She stops writing in her journal and stops taking walks.
(c) She stops writing in her journal and stops paying any attention to the soldier's requests.
(d) She refuses to eat and stops writing in her journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the women first meet some of the members of the Cheyenne tribe?

2. 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?

3. How does May describe the train they use to get to Fort Laramie in comparison to their transportation from Chicago?

4. What event captures the attention of Helen Flight on the train trip?

5. During the dinner conversation, Lydia Bradley tries to turn the conversation to what subject?

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