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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does May observe about the roles of men and women in the tribe?

2. What effect does Phemie's victory in the races have on the women?

3. What things were an important part of the wedding ceremony?

4. What does May teach Chief Little Wolf how to do on their "honeymoon"?

5. The women are depressed, but Phemie brings some cheer by doing what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the women first greeted by the Cheyenne?

2. What is one of the things that May and Captain Bourke share?

3. How does May feel about the beginning of her trip?

4. How does May feel about the Indian's relationship with nature and their lives in the camp?

5. Who will May be living with in her new life with the tribe?

6. How does May describe the wedding ceremony?

7. What does the reader learn about the Cheyenne belief about a Cheyenne killing a Cheyenne? How does this affect May's distress about Jules Seminole?

8. How does May describe the Cheyenne children?

9. What does Captain Bourke feel is the only way to civilize the Indians?

10. What does May learn about the fort Indians and the Indians living with their tribes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Please describe how the Kelly sisters, Margaret and Susan, are portrayed throughout the text. Do they change at all? If so, how? If not, why not? What are their main motivations for their actions with the tribe?

Essay Topic 2

Which character had the most dramatic growth from the beginning of the text to the end? Please support your answers with examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

There are times, throughout the book, that May discusses the idea of being civilized from the perspective of the Cheyenne and the white man. Who is to say, who is the more civilized? Give some examples of May's observation of the the "civilizations" of Indians and white people.

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