View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Reverend Hare do to incur the wrath of members of the tribe?
(a) He steals food when there is little.
(b) He tries to molest one of the young boys.
(c) He steals horses and sells them to other Indian tribes for his profit.
(d) He propositions one of the married women.

3. How do the Cheyenne women explain the act of capturing the Shoshone infant's hands to May?
(a) An act of no importance.
(b) The act of a demented few.
(c) An act that protects the Cheyenne babies.
(d) A childish act that must be ignored.

4. What does the tribal seer see for the future of the tribe?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Hope.
(c) Peace.
(d) Disaster.

5. How do the men react when Gretchen's husband challenges her?
(a) They cheer him.
(b) They ignore him.
(c) They call him a henpecked husband.
(d) The chastise him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Phemie refuse to go the the Agency?

2. What is one thing that upsets Little Wolf about moving to the Agency?

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

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

5. What news does Gertie bring to May when she visits her at the camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chief Little Wolf do to let the white man know he intends to comply with their demands that the tribe move to the Agency?

2. As a result of the Crow incident, how does Quiet One's attitude toward May change and why?

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

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

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

6. What items are denied the Cheyenne during the attempts to trade at the fort?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 745 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample