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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 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.

2. 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.

3. Why does the Army attack the Cheyenne camp?
(a) Because they want to steal all the horses.
(b) Because Jules Seminole told the Army it was a Sioux camp.
(c) Because they did not care if the Cheyenne were ready to cooperate.
(d) Because they could do anything they wanted to do.

4. What does Chief Little Wolf do that May warns will cause trouble?
(a) Threatens the settlers.
(b) Damages the settler's fields.
(c) Steals some of the settler's food.
(d) Kills some of the settler's cattle.

5. How are the women seen by the people of the fort?
(a) As loathsome creatures to be avoided.
(b) As similar to the prostitutes who hang around the fort Indians.
(c) As brave women on a special mission.
(d) As unusual women and not well understood.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Cheyenne women explain the act of capturing the Shoshone infant's hands to May?

2. How does Martha feel about Christmas?

3. What does Anthony's plans include for the spring?

4. What happens very soon after the Cheyenne arrive at the winter camp?

5. How does Chief Little Wolf feel about the Red Cloud Agency?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Phemie feel about the Cheyenne moving to the Agency?

2. What does May try to do each morning, and who often joins her?

3. How does Phemie handle her life in the tribe?

4. Who accompanies the women back from the fort to the Cheyenne camp?

5. What happens to May's journals?

6. How does December 25th pass for the women?

7. What happens to Chief Little Wolf and some members of the tribe that makes him reconsider who their enemy really is?

8. How are the women seen when they enter the fort with the Cheyenne after living almost six months with the Cheyenne?

9. How does May describe Anthony?

10. What does Woman Who Moves Against the Wind, the tribal holy woman, see for the Cheyenne future?

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