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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anthony's plans include for the spring?
(a) Building a hermitage.
(b) Moving West.
(c) Going back East.
(d) Going to the Agency to convert Indians.

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

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

4. What do some of the Cheyenne families decide to do after considering the white man's orders to go to the Agency?
(a) Go to the Agency.
(b) Return to the fort.
(c) Leave the tribe for the West.
(d) Hide out in the Black Hills.

5. Where does May have her baby?
(a) At the agency.
(b) In the birthing lodge.
(c) At the fort.
(d) In her tent.

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

7. How does May feel about visiting the fort after spending months with the Cheyenne?
(a) A bit anxious about encountering white civilization again.
(b) It is a wasted trip that should not be made.
(c) She should demand to stay there until her baby is born.
(d) It is time to refuse to return to the Cheyenne.

8. What does May tell Martha about the night of the abduction?
(a) She recognized some of the Crow.
(b) She had a message from Chief Little Wolf that he was coming to save them.
(c) She, too, was afraid, but tried to protect her unborn child.
(d) She had resigned herself to joining the Crow tribe.

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

10. What tribal tradition do Gretchen and May challenge?
(a) Eating in the men's tent.
(b) Performing religious ceremonies.
(c) Marrying more than one man.
(d) The use of the sweat-lodge.

11. What does May find repugnant about the religious practices of the Cheyenne?
(a) Condemnation of Christianity.
(b) Self mutiliation.
(c) Human sacrifices.
(d) The use of drugs.

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

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

14. Why does May feel the need to be close to Chief Little Wolf after the kidnapping ordeal?
(a) She is afraid and needs the comfort of his being close.
(b) She is afraid he will now divorce her because she was raped.
(c) She is sure she is now his favorite wife.
(d) She is afraid to be in the tent with other members of her family.

15. What is one thing that upsets Little Wolf about moving to the Agency?
(a) The tribe will have to serve the white people.
(b) The white women will rule the tribe.
(c) He has to step down as Chief.
(d) He has to give up two of his wives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does May believe Narcissa is planning as they near the fort?

2. What happens to May?

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

4. What is Captain Bourke's first reaction to May the first time he recognizes her?

5. Who comes to see Anthony 50 years after the Army attacked the Cheyenne?

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