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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 response to the Kit Foxes attack on the Shoshone?
(a) She gets angry.
(b) Her feelings are deeply hurt.
(c) She sees the Cheyenne as savages.
(d) She sees the Cheyenne as weak.

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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 intended to ask May to marry him.
(d) He wants all of the women to abandon the mission.

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

8. What happens when May and Captain Bourke meet again alone?
(a) They realize they were never meant for each other.
(b) They discover they don't like each other any more.
(c) They decide to run away together.
(d) They confess their love for each other.

9. One day, some of the white women who were gathered together away from the tribe were kidnapped and raped. Which of the women died?
(a) Ada.
(b) Phemie.
(c) Gertrude.
(d) Sara.

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

11. Why does Phemie refuse to go the the Agency?
(a) She wants to go West.
(b) She refuses to be a slave again.
(c) She wants to return to Canada.
(d) She doesn't like the land there.

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

13. 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 use buckets which they later empty.
(c) They are directed to find a distant place in the bush.
(d) They ride a horse a short way from the camp.

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

15. 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 kill the Cheyenne.
(c) Captain Bourke has arranged for the Cheyenne to escape to the West.
(d) The army is coming to enforce the order to go to the Agency.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the women seen by the people of the fort?

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

3. What do the soldiers put in the fire?

4. How is the weather as the Indians leave the fort?

5. What happens to May during a bad storm?

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