View a FREE sample

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

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. What information does the blacksmith's family that houses Phemie tell about the Cheyenne?
(a) They are well organized, but not particularly clean.
(b) They are known for being excellent thieves when they visit the forts.
(c) They are very rigid and that women are not treated well.
(d) They are considered the most handsome and cleanest of the Indian tribes, and their women most virtuous.

4. What is Captain Bourke disturbed to learn about what the women don't know?
(a) That they would not be able to return to the fort for their safety.
(b) That they could be abandoned if they were not selected.
(c) They had no way of ending their agreement.
(d) They were not given information about the life they would face.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Mary initially willing to participate in the Brides for Indians program?

2. What amusing incident occurs while the women are being chosen by their Indian husbands-to-be?

3. What is unusual about the hat that Lydia wears to wave goodbye to the party led by Captain Bourke?

4. How does May describe the train they use to get to Fort Laramie in comparison to their transportation from Chicago?

5. On the night she was taken to the asylum, what happened to Mary's babies?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 465 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample