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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Chief Little Wolf decide to ban from camp because it causes harm?
(a) Weapons.
(b) White man's goods.
(c) Arsenic.
(d) Whiskey.

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

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

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

7. What does Anthony decide to do when the Cheyenne go to the Agency?
(a) Stay in the area and build his hermitage.
(b) Go with the tribe to the Agency.
(c) Go West.
(d) Go back to his home.

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

9. What does May ask Little Wolf to do in order to let the Army personnel know they intend to comply?
(a) Go immediately to the Agency.
(b) Pretend to agree to go to the Agency.
(c) Host a feast and invite people from the fort.
(d) Fly a white flag in the camp.

10. How has the relationship of the white women who joined the Brides for Indians program evolved during the time they have spent with the Cheyenne?
(a) They have become enemies.
(b) They have become closer.
(c) They have drifted apart.
(d) They pay little attention to each other.

11. What does the visitor bring to Anthony?
(a) The oral history of the Cheyenne.
(b) Pictures of the Cheyenne.
(c) May's journals.
(d) Documentation of the injustice.

12. 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 the scalp of the Shoshone Chief.
(c) They present a bag containing the right hands of 12 Shoshone babies.
(d) They bring the Shoshone Chief as a captive.

13. What items are no longer available for trade to the Indians?
(a) Tools.
(b) Gunpowder and ammunition.
(c) Food.
(d) Farm implements.

14. How does May feel about moving to the Agency?
(a) It will destroy the tribe.
(b) It will be a good move.
(c) It is inevitable.
(d) The tribe will become wealthy traders.

15. Whose child does May have?
(a) Harry Ames.
(b) John Bourke.
(c) Reverend Hare.
(d) Chief Little Wolf.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does May describe the sanitation at the camp?

2. Who replaces the Reverend Hare?

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

4. What do some of the Cheyenne families decide to do after considering the white man's orders to go to the Agency?

5. How does May feel about visiting the fort after spending months with the Cheyenne?

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