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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 was the major issue regarding Sara's burial?

2. What do some of the Cheyenne families decide to do after considering the white man's orders to go to the Agency?

3. One day, some of the white women who were gathered together away from the tribe were kidnapped and raped. Which of the women died?

4. How do all of the women feel about the new babies?

5. What items are no longer available for trade to the Indians?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who accompanies the women back from the fort to the Cheyenne camp?

2. How does Chief Little Wolf respond to the Sioux request that the Cheyenne join them as they go to war against the white man?

3. What does May try to do each morning, and who often joins her?

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

5. How are the women seen when they enter the fort with the Cheyenne after living almost six months with the Cheyenne?

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

7. How does Chief Little Wolf feel about taking the tribe to the Agency?

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

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

10. What is unusual about Wren?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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.

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