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

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

3. Why does Phemie refuse to go the the Agency?
(a) She wants to return to Canada.
(b) She refuses to be a slave again.
(c) She wants to go West.
(d) She doesn't like the land there.

4. What are some of the Cheyenne joining the Sioux to do?
(a) Attack the Red Cloud Agency.
(b) Attack the fort.
(c) Raid the settlers in the Black Hills.
(d) Prepare to fight for the Black Hills.

5. What is "Seano?"
(a) It is the place where only the good Cheyenne go.
(b) It is the place that evil Cheyenne go.
(c) It is the place all Cheyenne go when they die.
(d) It is the netherword where Cheyenne souls go to wait to enter heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does May feel about visiting the fort after spending months with the Cheyenne?

2. After the kidnapping ordeal, how are the women treated by the tribe?

3. Which of the women is the first to learn the Cheyenne language, and why is it so unusual?

4. Who is Pretty Walker?

5. How does May describe the sanitation at the camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to May's journals?

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

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

4. How does May describe Anthony?

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

6. How does the nomadic life of the Cheyenne tribe end?

7. How does Chief Little Wolf respond to the Sioux request that the Cheyenne join them as they go to war against the white man?

8. How does Chief Little Wolf feel about taking the tribe to the Agency?

9. During the cold weather, the men spend time in their sweat lodge which is off limits to women. What do the women decide to do for themselves?

10. What is unusual about Wren?

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