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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 does Chief Little Wolf feel about the Red Cloud Agency?
(a) It is a farming community, and his people are hunters.
(b) It is a place filled with disease and death.
(c) His people will be forced to adopt white men's ways.
(d) That supplies are scarce and that the Indians suffer.

2. How does Martha feel about Christmas?
(a) She isn't interested in that anymore.
(b) It makes her homesick.
(c) She puts up a tree and gives everyone presents.
(d) She spends time with Anthony.

3. What news does Gertie bring to May when she visits her at the camp?
(a) The army is coming to kill the Cheyenne.
(b) Captain Bourke has arranged for the Cheyenne to escape to the West.
(c) The deadline to go to the Agency has been extended.
(d) The army is coming to enforce the order to go to the Agency.

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

5. Why does May feel the need to be close to Chief Little Wolf after the kidnapping ordeal?
(a) She is afraid and needs the comfort of his being close.
(b) She is afraid he will now divorce her because she was raped.
(c) She is sure she is now his favorite wife.
(d) She is afraid to be in the tent with other members of her family.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does General Crook want the Cheyenne to do?

3. What does May tell Martha about the night of the abduction?

4. Who replaces the Reverend Hare?

5. How is the weather as the Indians leave the fort?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the women on one of these morning outings?

2. What is unusual about Wren?

3. What does May tell Chief Little Wolf he will have to do in order to comply with the law of the white man?

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

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

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

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 do the Indians do on the return trip from the fort that May believes will cause trouble?

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

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

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