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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 does the agent of the Red Cloud agency think May is?
(a) A prostitute serving the Indians.
(b) A nurse.
(c) An angel of mercy.
(d) A good, Christian woman.

2. What does May observe about Anthony's sharing of his Christian faith?
(a) He preaches gently.
(b) He is full of fire and brimstone.
(c) He threatens hell as punishment for their sins.
(d) He simply does nothing.

3. Who is Pretty Walker?
(a) A young woman who takes care of the children.
(b) A young woman who takes care of the horses.
(c) A girl who leads the children.
(d) Chief Little Wolf's daughter.

4. What do the Sioux Indians come to ask of the Cheyenne tribe?
(a) To join the trading party.
(b) To arrange to trade horses for white women.
(c) To fight the whites to protect their possession of the Black Hills that was promised to them forever.
(d) To buy guns and ammunition for them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "Seano?"

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

3. What does May learn from Gertie about the Captain?

4. What happens to the band of Crow Indians that kidnapped the women?

5. How do the twins, whose husbands participated in the raid on the Shoshone, react to the bag of Shoshone infant's hands?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the ordeal with the Crow Indians end for the women?

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

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

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

7. What does Anthony decide to do as the tribe prepares to move to the Agency?

8. What happens to Reverend Hare that changes his standing in the tribe?

9. What unusual reaction does Daisy have while living with the Cheyenne?

10. How does May describe Anthony?

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