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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who replaces the Reverend Hare?
(a) A Catholic Priest.
(b) A Jewish Rabbi.
(c) Anthony, a Benedictine monk.
(d) Another Reverend.

4. What does Chief Little Wolf finally decide to do in response to the Army's demand that they go to the Agency?
(a) Fight.
(b) Travel to the Agency as soon as practical.
(c) Go to the West.
(d) Join with other Indian tribes and fight.

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

6. What is one of the results of the Kit Foxes attack on the Shoshone?
(a) They bring proof of the destruction of the Shoshone warriors.
(b) They present a bag containing the right hands of 12 Shoshone babies.
(c) They bring the Shoshone Chief as a captive.
(d) They present the scalp of the Shoshone Chief.

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 is May's primary concern about the demand that they move to the Agency?
(a) The women refuse to go to the Agency.
(b) The Cheyenne will fight to the death.
(c) The women's pregnancies and new babies can't travel.
(d) They Cheyenne lost most of their horses and would have to walk.

9. How do the men react when Gretchen's husband challenges her?
(a) They call him a henpecked husband.
(b) They cheer him.
(c) They ignore him.
(d) The chastise him.

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Sioux Indians come to ask of the Cheyenne tribe?

2. What happens when everyone finds out Gertie is a woman?

3. What does Narcissis do at the fort?

4. What does the agent of the Red Cloud agency think May is?

5. How do the Cheyenne feel about May's child?

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