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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Fall: Chapters 44 - 47.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What items does Wanderer take from a settlement at Linnville?
(a) Clothes and jewelry.
(b) Gold and silver.
(c) Horses and saddles.
(d) Guns and ammo.

2. Who is Placido?
(a) Leader of a singing troop who is wandering the Staked Plains.
(b) Leader of a group of foreign settlers who are also captured by the People Eaters.
(c) The leader of the People Eater band who captures Wanderer and Eagle.
(d) Leader of a band of Comanche who saves Wanderer.

3. What is causing the buffalo to become less prevalent on Indian lands during the novel's setting?
(a) Illness.
(b) The migration of the white people.
(c) Over hunting by the Indians.
(d) Colder winters.

4. Why is the body of this character in Chapter 44 who died of cholera not buried, but burned?
(a) To prevent spread of the disease.
(b) Because he was disrespected.
(c) This is the traditional burial of Comanche.
(d) To signal other bands to stay away.

5. What is cholera?
(a) A measles-like illness.
(b) A flu-like illness.
(c) An infection of the lungs.
(d) An infectious disease of the gastrointestinal track.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bear Cub find has happened to other bands as he travels in Chapters 44-45?

2. What gift does Takes Down the Lodge give Naduah to welcome her to the family?

3. Why are Wanderer, Eagle, and Spaniard captured by the People Eaters?

4. Why does Eagle antagonize the People Eaters the first night he is their captive?

5. Where is Plum Creek?

(see the answer key)

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