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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. What does General Crook want the Cheyenne to do?
(a) Travel south and leave the area.
(b) Disband and move to different areas of the country.
(c) Go to the Red Cloud Agency.
(d) Leave the area and move West.

5. 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) People often suffer more for being of mixed race.
(b) The white people will bribe them.
(c) It is a possibility.
(d) They will abuse their power.

6. What is the result of Reverend Hare's indiscretion?
(a) He is abandoned in the wilderness.
(b) He is banished from the tribe.
(c) He loses all credibility with the tribe.
(d) He is taken back to the fort and left there.

7. What does Reverend Hare do to incur the wrath of members of the tribe?
(a) He steals food when there is little.
(b) He steals horses and sells them to other Indian tribes for his profit.
(c) He propositions one of the married women.
(d) He tries to molest one of the young boys.

8. 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) Fly a white flag in the camp.
(d) Host a feast and invite people from the fort.

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

10. What does Helen do that the Indian women consider scandalous?
(a) Makes money.
(b) Drinks.
(c) Smokes.
(d) Eats only her food.

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

12. How do the Cheyenne feel about May's child?
(a) They condemn May and the child.
(b) She is evil.
(c) She is sacred.
(d) She and May should be sent to the fort.

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

14. What happens very soon after the Cheyenne arrive at the winter camp?
(a) Driving rain.
(b) Light snows.
(c) Unseasonably hot weather.
(d) A blizzard.

15. What was the major issue regarding Sara's burial?
(a) Reverend Hare wanted a Christian burial, and the Cheyenne wanted a traditional Cheyenne burial.
(b) An argument about what outfit she should be buried in.
(c) The white women insisted on performing a ceremony.
(d) What items should be buried with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the visitor bring to Anthony?

2. Why does May feel the need to be close to Chief Little Wolf after the kidnapping ordeal?

3. What news does Gertie bring to May when she visits her at the camp?

4. What does May observe about Anthony's sharing of his Christian faith?

5. What items are no longer available for trade to the Indians?

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