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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. How is Gretchen Fathauer described?
2. What does May believe happened during the wedding ceremony?
3. Who are the Kelly sisters, Margaret and Susan?
4. What is Captain Bourke disturbed to learn about what the women don't know?
5. How do the women first meet some of the members of the Cheyenne tribe?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where is May at the beginning of the story, and why is she there?
2. What happens on May's "honeymoon" with the Chief?
3. What is unique about Phemie?
4. Who are some of the people that May meets in those first few days of travel after leaving the asylum?
5. How does May describe the Cheyenne children?
6. How do the white women originally learn to communicate with the Cheyenne?
7. Where does Chief Little Wolf go after the night of whiskey, and how does he return?
8. Who is Lydia Bradley?
9. How are the women first greeted by the Cheyenne?
10. What is unusual about Phemie's place in the tribe?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Leadership is certainly a strong theme throughout One Thousand White Women. What kind of a leader was Chief Little Wolf? What, if any, qualities of a good or strong leader did he exemplify? Was his personality common among the Indians, or was he an exceptional man?
Essay Topic 2
What differences are there in the interpretation of moral behavior between the white man's culture, as exemplified by the white women, and the Indians? Use comments made in the text to support your statements.
Essay Topic 3
What part does the land and nature play in this book? Why does Jim Fergus choose to spend so much time describing the land, the seasons, and the part that living so close to nature played in Indian life? How does the reaction of May and the other women to their chance to live so close to nature, contribute to the story?
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