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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 15 June 1875.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the women approach the Indian tribe, what do they learn about the Indians?
(a) Their families have been told the truth about their mission.
(b) The Indians are having second thoughts about the program.
(c) The Cheyenne Indian tribe will be coming to meet them.
(d) There is unrest between the Indian tribes and between the Indians and white people.

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

3. What does May say about her children in her letter to Harry?
(a) She realizes it was for the best.
(b) She is glad that she is no longer responsible for the children.
(c) She misses her children.
(d) She no longer misses her children.

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

5. What is unusual about Stares at Sun, the old Indian who wins the target contest?
(a) He is elderly.
(b) He is blind.
(c) He is crippled.
(d) He is female.

Short Answer Questions

1. The women try to keep in touch but are often too tired to do so. When May finally sees Phemie again, what does Phemie tell her?

2. What happens when Jules Seminole calls Gretchen German?

3. How does Captain Bourke behave during the trip to the Indians?

4. What does May observe about the tribe's children?

5. What is the one diversion the women are able to enjoy at Fort Laramie?

(see the answer key)

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