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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does May observe about Anthony's sharing of his Christian faith?
(a) He simply does nothing.
(b) He preaches gently.
(c) He threatens hell as punishment for their sins.
(d) He is full of fire and brimstone.

2. Why does May believe the Indians have not easily convert to Christianity?
(a) The don't like white people.
(b) They have their own religion which satisfies them.
(c) They don't speak English well enough to understand.
(d) They are sworn atheists.

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

4. Which of the women is the first to learn the Cheyenne language, and why is it so unusual?
(a) Sara, because she never spoke English.
(b) Phemie, because she is a warrior.
(c) Ada, because she is so melancholy.
(d) Narcissa, because she is so adamant that she is a captive.

5. What do the Sioux Indians come to ask of the Cheyenne tribe?
(a) To fight the whites to protect their possession of the Black Hills that was promised to them forever.
(b) To join the trading party.
(c) To arrange to trade horses for white women.
(d) To buy guns and ammunition for them.

6. Which other woman frequently joins May at the beginning of her favorite time of day?
(a) Helen.
(b) Narcissa.
(c) Gertie.
(d) Ada.

7. How is the weather as the Indians leave the fort?
(a) Warm.
(b) Snowing and cold.
(c) Cool and pleasant.
(d) Raining and gloomy.

8. What happens to the band of Crow Indians that kidnapped the women?
(a) They are abandoned in the middle of nowhere.
(b) The are taken back to their tribe with marks of humiliation.
(c) They are beaten and forced to leave the area.
(d) They are killed in retaliation for the harm they caused.

9. How does May describe the sanitation at the camp?
(a) There is a central area, downwind of the camp, that all the people use.
(b) They are directed to find a distant place in the bush.
(c) They ride a horse a short way from the camp.
(d) They use buckets which they later empty.

10. Who does May reunite with at the winter camp?
(a) Martha.
(b) Ada.
(c) Helen.
(d) Phemie.

11. How do all of the women feel about the new babies?
(a) They have no particular feelings.
(b) They see them as intruders.
(c) They are thrilled with them.
(d) They see them as half-breeds.

12. One of May's arguments in support of moving to the Agency includes the belief that the mixed race children will help the Indians assimilate. What is Phemie's response?
(a) The white people will bribe them.
(b) It is a possibility.
(c) People often suffer more for being of mixed race.
(d) They will abuse their power.

13. What news does Gertie bring to May when she visits her at the camp?
(a) The deadline to go to the Agency has been extended.
(b) The army is coming to enforce the order to go to the Agency.
(c) The army is coming to kill the Cheyenne.
(d) Captain Bourke has arranged for the Cheyenne to escape to the West.

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

15. Who comes to see Anthony 50 years after the Army attacked the Cheyenne?
(a) Reverend Hare.
(b) Harold Wild Plums, son of Wren, grandson of May.
(c) Jasmine Wild Flower, Martha's granddaughter.
(d) Captain Bourke.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Cheyenne women explain the act of capturing the Shoshone infant's hands to May?

2. Why does Phemie refuse to go the the Agency?

3. What does General Crook want the Cheyenne to do?

4. Whose child does May have?

5. How does May react to the seer's predictions about the tribes future?

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