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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens that causes some distress among the women, especially Martha?
(a) The women are forced to leave their families.
(b) The women must leave to have their babies.
(c) Because game is scarce, the tribe is forced to separate.
(d) The women are asked to travel alone.

2. What does May tell Martha about the night of the abduction?
(a) She had resigned herself to joining the Crow tribe.
(b) She, too, was afraid, but tried to protect her unborn child.
(c) She had a message from Chief Little Wolf that he was coming to save them.
(d) She recognized some of the Crow.

3. How does May react to the seer's predictions about the tribes future?
(a) She, too, looks forward to a peaceful future.
(b) She pays no attention.
(c) She refuses to accept the prediction of a bad future.
(d) She, too, sees a future of plenty.

4. What happens to May?
(a) She escapes the camp and runs away.
(b) She is beaten
(c) She gets shot.
(d) She is rescued.

5. What happens to May during a bad storm?
(a) She gets very sick.
(b) She is punished for trying to get into the sweat-lodge.
(c) She sneaks out of the camp.
(d) She gets lost in the camp and has to be rescued.

6. What happens when everyone finds out Gertie is a woman?
(a) She marries one of the other muleskinners.
(b) She is forced to live with the Indians.
(c) She is exiled.
(d) She still works as a muleskinner.

7. How does Chief Little Wolf feel about the Red Cloud Agency?
(a) It is a place filled with disease and death.
(b) It is a farming community, and his people are hunters.
(c) That supplies are scarce and that the Indians suffer.
(d) His people will be forced to adopt white men's ways.

8. What does the agent of the Red Cloud agency think May is?
(a) An angel of mercy.
(b) A prostitute serving the Indians.
(c) A good, Christian woman.
(d) A nurse.

9. What happens to John Bourke after the Army attack?
(a) He loses his mind.
(b) He quietly retires and lives alone.
(c) He becomes a general in the Army.
(d) He becomes an advocate of Indian's rights.

10. How does Martha feel about Christmas?
(a) It makes her homesick.
(b) She puts up a tree and gives everyone presents.
(c) She isn't interested in that anymore.
(d) She spends time with Anthony.

11. Who is Woman Who Moves Against the Wind?
(a) A tribal holy person.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A guide.
(d) A hunter.

12. What does May learn from Gertie about the Captain?
(a) He had Gertie follow the tribe during the summer.
(b) He is preparing to wage war against the Cheyenne.
(c) He wants all of the women to abandon the mission.
(d) He intended to ask May to marry him.

13. Why is Quiet One kind to May after the kidnapping ordeal?
(a) Because May is now Chief Little Wolf's favorite wife.
(b) Because May relies on her to feel safe.
(c) Because May saved her daughter, Pretty Walker, from being raped.
(d) Because they are now equal in the eyes of Chief Little Wolf.

14. How does May feel about visiting the fort after spending months with the Cheyenne?
(a) It is a wasted trip that should not be made.
(b) A bit anxious about encountering white civilization again.
(c) She should demand to stay there until her baby is born.
(d) It is time to refuse to return to the Cheyenne.

15. What is May's favorite time of day?
(a) After dinner, while the others relax at the end of the day.
(b) At the end of the day, when the others have gone to sleep.
(c) In the morning, before the camp is fully awake.
(d) In the afternoon, while most of the others take an afternoon nap.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some of the Cheyenne joining the Sioux to do?

2. Who replaces the Reverend Hare?

3. Why does May believe the Indians have not easily convert to Christianity?

4. Who is Pretty Walker?

5. Who does May reunite with at the winter camp?

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