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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. How does May feel about the countryside they are traveling through to meet the Indians?
(a) She likes the beautiful colored leaves of the fall.
(b) She enjoys the new growth and beauty of the land near the river bottom.
(c) She hates the desert and living so close to nature.
(d) She likes the beautiful flowers of the spring.
2. What two things does May stop doing because of the cruel way she is treated while staying with the family of Lieutenant James?
(a) She refuses to eat and stops writing in her journal.
(b) She stops writing in her journal and stops taking walks.
(c) She refuses to eat and stops taking walks.
(d) She stops writing in her journal and stops paying any attention to the soldier's requests.
3. How do the women feel about staying with Phemie?
(a) They don't have any particular feeling about it.
(b) They like to room with Phemie because she gets the best treatment.
(c) Many refuse to room with Phemie because she is a Negro.
(d) Many refuse to room with Phemie because the Negro families are cruel to the white women.
4. What do the women learn as they get near the Indians?
(a) Several people on previous trips have gotten lost in the wild, unexplored territory.
(b) Enemy Sioux Indians want to kill the women.
(c) Enemy Sioux Indians want to kidnap the woman.
(d) A month earlier, Lt. Levi Robinson was murdered by Sioux.
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) The women should go home.
(c) It is impossible for Indians to understand the white man's culture.
(d) The mission of the women is doomed to failure.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does May describe the train they use to get to Fort Laramie in comparison to their transportation from Chicago?
2. For the last part of their journey to the Indians, what do the women ride in?
3. Who is Lydia Bradley?
4. Why is May sent to the asylum?
5. Who is Jimmy?
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