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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During her "honeymoon," what does May learn to do?
(a) Build a stand to use to hunt.
(b) Identify safe things to eat.
(c) Shoot game.
(d) Butcher, skin, and dress an animal.

2. What things were an important part of the wedding ceremony?
(a) Food and instruction on how to prepare this special food.
(b) Instructions on how to be good Indian wives.
(c) Instructions on properly serving their new husbands.
(d) Music, singing, and dancing.

3. What does May learn about Jimmy during the last days of the trip?
(a) Jimmy is spying on Captain Bourke.
(b) Jimmy plans on trading some guns with the Indians.
(c) Jimmy is really a girl named Dirty Gertie.
(d) Jimmy is really a military spy.

4. Who is the Kelly twins' ace-in-the-hole in their gambling enterprise?
(a) Gretchen.
(b) May.
(c) Narcissa.
(d) Helen.

5. When Narcissa fails at converting the tribe, what does she try to do?
(a) Teach some to knit and crochet so they can earn a living.
(b) Train some to become good servants for white people.
(c) Train some to be teachers so they can spread civilization.
(d) Teach some to learn to trade to bring wealth to the Indians.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does May describe Reverend Hare?

2. How is Gretchen Fathauer described?

3. How does May describe Captain Bourke?

4. What kind of Indians were the fort Indians, according to Abigail James?

5. What does Gretchen tell her husband after he wagers her for whiskey with Jules Seminole?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is unique about Phemie?

2. How are the women first greeted by the Cheyenne?

3. How does May describe the Cheyenne children?

4. What does Captain Bourke feel is the only way to civilize the Indians?

5. How does May feel about the Indian's relationship with nature and their lives in the camp?

6. How does Captain Bourke feel about their mission and the attempt to civilize the Indians?

7. What is unusual about Phemie's place in the tribe?

8. How does May describe the wedding ceremony?

9. What does the reader learn about the Cheyenne belief about a Cheyenne killing a Cheyenne? How does this affect May's distress about Jules Seminole?

10. Who is Jimmy?

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