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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 happens when everyone finds out Gertie is a woman?

2. What happens when May and Captain Bourke meet again alone?

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

4. What does Chief Little Wolf finally decide to do in response to the Army's demand that they go to the Agency?

5. What tribal tradition do Gretchen and May challenge?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What unusual reaction does Daisy have while living with the Cheyenne?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the book's ending and whether or not it is a satisfactory ending for readers. Is it historically accurate? What part does the seer's prophecy play in making the ending more powerful? Does the ending satisfy the bulk of readers' questions?

Essay Topic 2

How does the fact that the author is a man affect the reader's view of the journals of a woman? Jim Fergus was intrigued by the existence of the program and curious about the kinds of women that would have participated in such a program. Do you feel that the author was successful in his impersonation? Do you feel that as a man, he might have been able to add an additional depth to May Dodd's journals? How do you feel about how his life experiences might have affected this creation?

Essay Topic 3

Now that you know Chief Little Wolf, why do you think he wanted to invite white women to intermarry and bear Indian children as a way of bring the cultures closer together? For instance, he could have suggested an exchange of students and other young people to simply learn about each other. Instead, he chose the most powerful of relationships as a means of bind the cultures. What do you think of his decision? Would another approach have been better?

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