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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 plans on trading some guns with the Indians.
(b) Jimmy is really a girl named Dirty Gertie.
(c) Jimmy is really a military spy.
(d) Jimmy is spying on Captain Bourke.

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

3. 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 happy to be free of the asylum and misses her own two children.
(b) She is excited about going to marry an Indian as part of the program Brides for Indians.
(c) She reflects warmly about the feeling of safety she had at the asylum.
(d) She is considering how she can escape and find her way to the West to search for gold.

4. What do May and Captain Bourke do in his tent, according to the entry of April 22nd?
(a) They confess their strong feelings for each other.
(b) They read Shakespeare. Nothing more. Nothing less.
(c) The talk about the Brides for Indians program.
(d) They talk about the rest of the travel plans.

5. Why is May sent to the asylum?
(a) Her family wants her to marry a socially prominent man they have selected for her, but she refuses.
(b) She has had a number of lovers and refuses to take responsibility for her children.
(c) Her family considers her behavior promiscuous.
(d) Her family wants her to marry Harry Ames to legitimize their grandchildren.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Martha decide to join the Brides for Indians program?

2. How does May describe Captain Bourke?

3. What does Captain Bourke say to May the evening before leaving the women with the Cheyenne?

4. What is Captain Bourke concerned about when he is alone with May in his tent?

5. What two things does May stop doing because of the cruel way she is treated while staying with the family of Lieutenant James?

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