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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Reverend Hare doing in all the commotion?
(a) Cowering in a corner, afraid of what is happening.
(b) Ready to help the women restore order.
(c) Ready to help the women escape the camp.
(d) He has already left the camp.

2. According to tribal custom, because Marie Blanche's husband is dead and she is pregnant, what happens to her?
(a) One Bear, Runs From Crow's younger brother, offers to marry her.
(b) She is banished from the tribe.
(c) She is married to the Chief.
(d) She is sent back to the fort.

3. According to May's diary, what does Narcissa White considers herself to be?
(a) A Christian who should spend her time praying.
(b) A powerful, spiritual force who believes her children will civilize the tribe.
(c) An official representative of the American Church Missionary Society.
(d) A beautiful woman who should have the best husband.

4. What does Gretchen tell her husband after he wagers her for whiskey with Jules Seminole?
(a) That she wants the whiskey to sell.
(b) She is going to kill him.
(c) To not come back to her tent.
(d) She can make him rich if he will be good to her.

5. What does May observe about the women who came to the tribe with her?
(a) They look very much like natives.
(b) They have maintained vestiges of their previous lives.
(c) They are counting the days until they can leave.
(d) They are unhappy with the tribe and let them know it.

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

7. What does May try to discourage the Indians from doing during a special council meeting?
(a) Sending a raiding party off to capture more white women.
(b) Going to war on an enemy tribe.
(c) Arranging fights to the death to determine the superior warriors.
(d) Raiding the nearest fort and surrounding farms for supplies.

8. What are some of the smells involved with living with the Indians that make an impression on May?
(a) Indescribable odors of bedding, people, and smoke.
(b) Smells of the horses that live so close to the people.
(c) Wonderful smells of cooking.
(d) Clean smells of the laundry.

9. What does May do in the first morning with the Indian tribe that amuses the Indians?
(a) She reads her book every night.
(b) She follows them to the place they bathe and bathes herself.
(c) She insists on preparing meals the way she used to.
(d) She sings to herself while she works in the fields.

10. 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 mission of the women is doomed to failure.
(c) It is impossible for Indians to understand the white man's culture.
(d) The women should go home.

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

12. What effect does Phemie's victory in the races have on the women?
(a) They are frightened about how the men will react.
(b) They are united in their pleasure that a woman won.
(c) It has no effect at all.
(d) They decide to demand qual treatment.

13. What does May teach Chief Little Wolf how to do on their "honeymoon"?
(a) Swim and kiss.
(b) Swim and dive.
(c) Laugh and dive.
(d) Jog and swim.

14. How does May describe the Indian's hunting?
(a) Dangerous and necessary to the survival of the tribe.
(b) Haphazard and avoided by most.
(c) Frivolous and done for sport.
(d) Necessary but not particularly challenging.

15. How does May describe Captain Bourke?
(a) Strictly a soldier with no interest in any other subject.
(b) Tied up by the running of the fort.
(c) Not at all interested in the group of women.
(d) A handsome man with the romantic look of a poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Reverend Hare tell May she is when she returns to camp?

2. Whose tent do May, Martha, and the other women run to when the Indians run amok?

3. Who is Daisy Lovelace?

4. What does May learn about Jimmy during the last days of the trip?

5. What does May observe about the roles of men and women in the tribe?

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