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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 Chief Little Wolf finally decide to do in response to the Army's demand that they go to the Agency?
(a) Travel to the Agency as soon as practical.
(b) Go to the West.
(c) Fight.
(d) Join with other Indian tribes and fight.

2. What happens that causes some distress among the women, especially Martha?
(a) The women are forced to leave their families.
(b) The women are asked to travel alone.
(c) Because game is scarce, the tribe is forced to separate.
(d) The women must leave to have their babies.

3. How does May describe the sanitation at the camp?
(a) There is a central area, downwind of the camp, that all the people use.
(b) They ride a horse a short way from the camp.
(c) They are directed to find a distant place in the bush.
(d) They use buckets which they later empty.

4. Which other woman frequently joins May at the beginning of her favorite time of day?
(a) Helen.
(b) Ada.
(c) Gertie.
(d) Narcissa.

5. What happens to John Bourke after the Army attack?
(a) He becomes an advocate of Indian's rights.
(b) He loses his mind.
(c) He quietly retires and lives alone.
(d) He becomes a general in the Army.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens when Bourke does not shock Chief Little Wolf in the "game?"

3. What do the Sioux Indians come to ask of the Cheyenne tribe?

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

5. What happens to May during a bad storm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What terrible thing happens that make the women believe the Cheyenne are truly savages?

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

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

4. What is unusual about Wren?

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

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

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

8. What happens to May's journals?

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

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

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