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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 10 November, 10 December and 18 December 1875.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the result of Reverend Hare's indiscretion?
(a) He is taken back to the fort and left there.
(b) He is abandoned in the wilderness.
(c) He is banished from the tribe.
(d) He loses all credibility with the tribe.

2. What event occurs that makes May feel that men are foolish, loutish creatures?
(a) The men shoot a buffalo and insist on eating it.
(b) The men make lewd comments about the women.
(c) The men proposition the women.
(d) The men shoot the buffalo and leave them to die.

3. What does May see is so damaging to the Indians?
(a) War games.
(b) Smoking.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Promiscuity.

4. How are the women seen by the people of the fort?
(a) As similar to the prostitutes who hang around the fort Indians.
(b) As brave women on a special mission.
(c) As loathsome creatures to be avoided.
(d) As unusual women and not well understood.

5. 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?
(a) It is impossible for Indians to understand the white man's culture.
(b) The woman have a good chance of civilizing the Indians.
(c) The women should go home.
(d) The mission of the women is doomed to failure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the band of Crow Indians that kidnapped the women?

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

3. What does May observe about the roles of men and women in the tribe?

4. What happens that causes some distress among the women, especially Martha?

5. What is "Seano?"

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