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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 Captain Bourke?
(a) Tied up by the running of the fort.
(b) Not at all interested in the group of women.
(c) Strictly a soldier with no interest in any other subject.
(d) A handsome man with the romantic look of a poet.

2. What kind of person is Narcissa White?
(a) A selfish spinster.
(b) A Christian missionary with a shrill voice.
(c) A shrew who hates everyone.
(d) A quiet, little woman.

3. What is Narcissa White's reaction to the destructive events the night the Indians drink the whiskey?
(a) She tries to escape the camp and return to the fort.
(b) She believes that God has forsaken her and all of the women.
(c) She sets up a prayer meeting.
(d) She condemns the women for being sinners.

4. What does May do in the first morning with the Indian tribe that amuses the Indians?
(a) She insists on preparing meals the way she used to.
(b) She follows them to the place they bathe and bathes herself.
(c) She sings to herself while she works in the fields.
(d) She reads her book every night.

5. What happens to Jules Seminole because he brought the whiskey to the tribe?
(a) He is sent to the fort for imprisonment.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He is banished for one year.
(d) He is sent to live with another Indian tribe.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Narcissa fails at converting the tribe, what does she try to do?

2. What is Reverend Hare doing in all the commotion?

3. During the dinner conversation, Lydia Bradley tries to turn the conversation to what subject?

4. Who is Jimmy?

5. Who is Daisy Lovelace?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the white women originally learn to communicate with the Cheyenne?

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

4. 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?

5. How do May and Captain Bourke feel about each other the first time they meet?

6. Where is May at the beginning of the story, and why is she there?

7. What is unique about Phemie?

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

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

10. What is the proposal that Chief Little Wolf presents to President Grant and why?

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