1. How does May describe the train they use to get to Fort Laramie in comparison to their transportation from Chicago?
(a) Even more spartan and uncomfortable.
(b) Somewhat more comfortable.
(c) Filthy.
(d) Luxurious.

2. How does Chief Little Wolf feel about the Red Cloud Agency?
(a) His people will be forced to adopt white men's ways.
(b) It is a farming community, and his people are hunters.
(c) That supplies are scarce and that the Indians suffer.
(d) It is a place filled with disease and death.

3. How does May feel about visiting the fort after spending months with the Cheyenne?
(a) She should demand to stay there until her baby is born.
(b) It is a wasted trip that should not be made.
(c) It is time to refuse to return to the Cheyenne.
(d) A bit anxious about encountering white civilization again.

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?
(a) Vow to remain chaste and love from afar.
(b) They realize they do not really like each other.
(c) Decide to run away together.
(d) Make love.

5. What does the agent of the Red Cloud agency think May is?
(a) A prostitute serving the Indians.
(b) A nurse.
(c) A good, Christian woman.
(d) An angel of mercy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the things done to prepare the women for the wedding?

2. How does May describe the camp that is set up at the end of each day of travel?

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

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. Sitting in the tipi at the end of her arrival day in camp, what does May realize?

(see the answer key)

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