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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Comanche call the month of February?
(a) Month of Dark Surprises.
(b) Month the Babies Cry for Food.
(c) Month of Love and Happiness.
(d) Month of Great Snows.

2. Who do the Parkers ask to help rescue their captured family members?
(a) Sam Houston.
(b) Sul Ross.
(c) Davy Crockett.
(d) Daniel Boone.

3. What does Naduah sacrifice in order to help the Wasp band eat?
(a) Her pet dog.
(b) Her pet antelope.
(c) Her pet deer.
(d) Her pet buffalo.

4. Who has adopted Bear Cub?
(a) Buffalo Piss.
(b) Old Owl.
(c) Sunrise.
(d) Old Fish.

5. Why are the Indians at the fort?
(a) To ask for shelter.
(b) To talk about leasing their territory.
(c) To ask for food.
(d) To talk about a treaty.

6. Who is John Parker?
(a) Cynthia's cousin.
(b) Cynthia's fifteen-year-old brother and potential rescurer.
(c) Cynthia's uncle.
(d) Cynthia's six-year-old brother and fellow captor.

7. What happens to Rachel Plummer's baby?
(a) Cruel One leaves it with white people.
(b) Cruel One adopts it.
(c) Cruel One abandons it on the prairie.
(d) Cruel One kills it.

8. What name is the pony given in the war party ceremony christened with?
(a) Wind.
(b) Cloud.
(c) Snow.
(d) Rain.

9. Who does Naduah meet again during the winter?
(a) Her aunt, Elizabeth Parker.
(b) Her cousin, Rachel Plummer.
(c) Her uncle, Ben Parker.
(d) Her brother, John Parker.

10. What does Naduah often wonder about her white family in the early days with the Comanche?
(a) All the above.
(b) If they will rescue her someday.
(c) If they are still alive.
(d) If they are looking for her.

11. Who gives Naduah a deerskin dress with bells during her first year with the Comanche?
(a) Sunrise.
(b) Medicine Woman.
(c) Something Good.
(d) Takes Down the Lodge.

12. Why is Cynthia afraid Wanderer will kill her?
(a) She misunderstands his actions.
(b) She has read too many fiction stories.
(c) She has done something to offend him.
(d) She wants him to.

13. Where do Bear Cub's loyalties lie when the white soldiers attack Old Owl's band?
(a) With the white soldiers.
(b) With the white soldiers and the dead Comanche.
(c) With Old Owl and the injured soldiers.
(d) With Old Owl and the Comanche.

14. Why is Terrible Snows moving from band to band in Chapter 27?
(a) Trying to improve his fortune.
(b) Trying to find a permanent home.
(c) Looking for free food.
(d) Looking for his mother.

15. Who is Cynthia Ann Parker?
(a) The sister of Rachel Plummer.
(b) The nine-year-old daughter of Silas Parker.
(c) The cousin of John Parker.
(d) The wife of Silas Parker.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Texas set aside to rid the countryside of Comanche?

2. To whom is Cynthia Ann Parker given after she is captured by Indians in Chapter 1?

3. What is pemmican?

4. Why do New Mexico traders want to buy Rachel?

5. What happens to the bands of Comanche who go to San Antonio for the 1839 peace treaty talks?

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