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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 7 May and 8 May, 1875.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does May learn about Jimmy during the last days of the trip?
(a) Jimmy is spying on Captain Bourke.
(b) Jimmy plans on trading some guns with the Indians.
(c) Jimmy is really a military spy.
(d) Jimmy is really a girl named Dirty Gertie.

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

3. 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) Strictly a soldier with no interest in any other subject.
(d) A handsome man with the romantic look of a poet.

4. What kind of Indians were the fort Indians, according to Abigail James?
(a) "Industrious and interested in learning white man's ways."
(b) "They exploited their culture by selling trinkets to white people."
(c) "Drunken, degenerate savages."
(d) "They are business owners who were successful at the forts."

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. Who is Daisy Lovelace?

2. How does May describe the cowboys she sees?

3. How does May describe some farmers in the field?

4. How does May describe the military guard accompanying them on their journey?

5. The women are depressed, but Phemie brings some cheer by doing what?

(see the answer key)

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