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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. Why does Martha decide to join the Brides for Indians program?
(a) To marry an Indian.
(b) To make money.
(c) She is afraid to be punished for helping May.
(d) To go to the West.

2. What were May Dodd's feelings while she rode the train on her way to become one of the Brides for Indians?
(a) She is considering how she can escape and find her way to the West to search for gold.
(b) She is happy to be free of the asylum and misses her own two children.
(c) She reflects warmly about the feeling of safety she had at the asylum.
(d) She is excited about going to marry an Indian as part of the program Brides for Indians.

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

4. Who is Euphemia Washington?
(a) A "statuesque colored girl" with a beautiful voice.
(b) A colored woman whose husband beat her.
(c) A colored woman who wanted to go West.
(d) A beautiful colored woman who was sold into the Brides for Indians.

5. For the last part of their journey to the Indians, what do the women ride in?
(a) A very uncomfortable cart.
(b) In a train car.
(c) On horseback.
(d) A somewhat uncomfortable covered wagon.

Short Answer Questions

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

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 is Captain Bourke disturbed to learn about what the women don't know?

5. How were the women treated when they first entered the Indian camp?

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