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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jules Seminole tell May is the reason Chief Little Wolf will never kill him?
(a) Chief Little Wolf is afraid of him and can not kill him.
(b) As a member of the tribe, he is able to do anything he wants.
(c) He will be leaving soon.
(d) It is forbidden to kill a member of the tribe.

3. 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 taking walks.
(b) She stops writing in her journal and stops taking walks.
(c) She stops writing in her journal and stops paying any attention to the soldier's requests.
(d) She refuses to eat and stops writing in her journal.

4. What things were an important part of the wedding ceremony?
(a) Instructions on properly serving their new husbands.
(b) Food and instruction on how to prepare this special food.
(c) Instructions on how to be good Indian wives.
(d) Music, singing, and dancing.

5. What does Reverend Hare tell May she is when she returns to camp?
(a) A lost woman who must seek spiritual guidance.
(b) A good Christian woman who has been misguided.
(c) A Godless woman.
(d) A sinner who must repent.

6. May and Captain Bourke find they both share an interest in what subject?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Milton.
(c) Horses.
(d) The Bible.

7. What kind of person is Narcissa White?
(a) A selfish spinster.
(b) A shrew who hates everyone.
(c) A Christian missionary with a shrill voice.
(d) A quiet, little woman.

8. What does May see is so damaging to the Indians?
(a) Promiscuity.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) War games.
(d) Smoking.

9. Why does Martha decide to join the Brides for Indians program?
(a) To go to the West.
(b) To marry an Indian.
(c) To make money.
(d) She is afraid to be punished for helping May.

10. What has Helen become during her time with the tribe?
(a) A successful but poor artist.
(b) A successful artist and a woman of financial success.
(c) A frightened woman hated because of her art.
(d) A frightening woman of power because of her art.

11. Who is Daisy Lovelace?
(a) A lovely, elegant woman who volunteers to escape poverty.
(b) A woman trying to escape from a brutal husband.
(c) A woman who gives the appearance of ruined gentry.
(d) A woman who sells clothing and wants to study Indian fashion.

12. What is the President's Indian Peace Plan?
(a) It will teach Indians to live like white people.
(b) It will send Indian representatives to live among white people.
(c) It involves coming to a peaceful agreement with the Indian leaders.
(d) It involves sending the Cheyenne children to church-affiliated boarding schools.

13. 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.

14. When the Cheyenne come to inspect the white women, what does May realize that Captain Bourke understands?
(a) He is in love with her and wants her to stay with him.
(b) The Chief has selected May for his own.
(c) He knows she will be safe and cared for.
(d) He is relieved that he is about to deliver the women.

15. What does May believe happened during the wedding ceremony?
(a) She was drugged as part of the ceremony.
(b) The men exchanged wives.
(c) The ceremony was a secret affair.
(d) Some of the women were forced to leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Kelly twins' ace-in-the-hole in their gambling enterprise?

2. How does May describe Reverend Hare?

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

4. How does May describe the camp that is set up at the end of each day of travel?

5. Who is Jimmy?

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