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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 describe some farmers in the field?
(a) Lazy and shiftless with fields that suffer from neglect.
(b) Gaunt and hopeless as they try to plow the fields.
(c) Healthy and successful, plowing beautiful fields.
(d) Very interested in the women.

2. The women are depressed, but Phemie brings some cheer by doing what?
(a) She asks the soldiers to buy them something to eat.
(b) She sings the Negro spiritual, "This Train."
(c) She prepares a good home cooked meal.
(d) She leads the women in a prayer.

3. 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) "Drunken, degenerate savages."
(d) "They exploited their culture by selling trinkets to white people."

4. What event occurs that makes May feel that men are foolish, loutish creatures?
(a) The men shoot a buffalo and insist on eating it.
(b) The men shoot the buffalo and leave them to die.
(c) The men proposition the women.
(d) The men make lewd comments about the women.

5. Why was Mary initially willing to participate in the Brides for Indians program?
(a) To get away from her parents.
(b) To make money.
(c) To escape the asylum.
(d) To go to the West.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Helen Flight tell Lydia Bradley about the feathers in her new hat?

2. Who is Daisy Lovelace?

3. What do May and Captain Bourke do in his tent, according to the entry of April 22nd?

4. What does May tell Harry in a letter?

5. After the Indians inspect the woman, what is May certain of?

(see the answer key)

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