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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. How does May describe her first few days with the tribe?
(a) Full of hard, physical labor and no privacy.
(b) Boring and tedious with nothing to do.
(c) Spent under guard in her tent.
(d) Spent learning sign language.

2. What are some of the smells involved with living with the Indians that make an impression on May?
(a) Smells of the horses that live so close to the people.
(b) Indescribable odors of bedding, people, and smoke.
(c) Wonderful smells of cooking.
(d) Clean smells of the laundry.

3. What does May believe happened during the wedding ceremony?
(a) Some of the women were forced to leave.
(b) She was drugged as part of the ceremony.
(c) The men exchanged wives.
(d) The ceremony was a secret affair.

4. What event captures the attention of Helen Flight on the train trip?
(a) The soldiers shoot some of the birds in the area to eat.
(b) She gets off the train and is able to get close to some birds.
(c) A very large group of cranes take off from the surface of the river, creating a massive wave of birds.
(d) A bird flies into the train, and she is able to capture it.

5. Who is Sara Johnstone?
(a) A young woman who also lived at the asylum, but who never speaks.
(b) A cheerful, verbose young women.
(c) A woman who wants to learn about Indians firsthand.
(d) A cleaning woman at the asylum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Martha decide to join the Brides for Indians program?

2. What do May and John Bourke do at the end of their conversation the day before the women are to be left with the Cheyenne?

3. Who are the Kelly sisters, Margaret and Susan?

4. What is Captain Bourke's comment about May Dodd's suggestion that the woman might be able to bring an appreciation for white civilization to the savages?

5. What is the President's Indian Peace Plan?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Chief Little Wolf go after the night of whiskey, and how does he return?

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

3. How does the first journal end under the direction of Phemie?

4. How does May feel about her attraction to Captain Bourke?

5. What happens when the Indians drink whiskey?

6. Who is Jimmy?

7. How does May feel about Chief Little Wolf after he speaks out against Jules in the tribal council?

8. 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?

9. What happens at the shooting tournament?

10. Who will May be living with in her new life with the tribe?

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