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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the Wasp band goes off on its own again in Chapter 48?
(a) They all break out with measle rashes.
(b) They are overwhelmed with chickenpox.
(c) They all become disabled from polio.
(d) They are destroyed by smallpox.

2. For what reason does Pahayuca take his people off the Staked Plains?
(a) They are suffering the white man's illness.
(b) They are unable to find the plant foods they need to survive.
(c) They are starving.
(d) They are unwilling to hunt anymore.

3. Who kills a white man while in labor and riding on a travois in Chapter 52?
(a) Star Name.
(b) Medicine Woman.
(c) Naduah.
(d) Small Hands.

4. What does Wanderer teach Naduah to do in the desolate land of the Quahadi?
(a) To track.
(b) To shop.
(c) To hunt.
(d) To find food.

5. What does Naduah dislike about the reaction of the other girls upon Wanderer's return in Chapter 35?
(a) The way they fall over his every word.
(b) The way they prim and preen.
(c) The way they push Naduah out of the way.
(d) The way they ignore him.

6. What causes the journey back from Plum Creek to be so difficult on young warriors like Upstream?
(a) There was no food or water.
(b) There was no arrows.
(c) There was no loot.
(d) There were no horses.

7. Where do the Quohadi live?
(a) East Arizona.
(b) East New Mexico.
(c) North Texas.
(d) Southern Oklahoma.

8. What do the soldiers quickly notice about Naduah in Chapter 54?
(a) She is white.
(b) She is old.
(c) She is the chief's wife.
(d) She is a warrior.

9. What is Naduah's dowry in her marriage to Wanderer?
(a) One horse.
(b) Twenty horses.
(c) One hundred horses.
(d) Ten horses.

10. Why do the Comanche declare war on Texas?
(a) Out of jealousy for the reservations they were not allowed to go to.
(b) Out of jealousy for the cattle they did not receive.
(c) In revenge for the events at San Antonio.
(d) In revenge for the murder of White Robe's band.

11. Where does Bear Cub go after the death of his friend in Chapter 44?
(a) To find his white family.
(b) To find his grandfather.
(c) To find Naduah.
(d) To find his Mexican lover.

12. Why do Wanderer and Buffalo Piss become angry with Pahayuca in the fall of 1854?
(a) He has divorced his wife like a white man.
(b) He has abandoned his people.
(c) He has chosen to go to the reservations.
(d) He has given up his role as chief.

13. Why have the Quohadi broken from the southern Comanche bands?
(a) The southern bands have stopped raiding.
(b) The southern bands raid other Comanche camps.
(c) The southern bands have moved onto the reservations.
(d) The southern bands accused the Quohadi of collaberating with the white man.

14. What is the name of Naduah and Wanderer's second child?
(a) Pecan.
(b) Wanderer Jr.
(c) Wasp.
(d) Quotich.

15. What does Wanderer believe the Comanche need to fight the white man?
(a) Knives.
(b) Guns.
(c) Money.
(d) Maps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do New Mexican poachers trade with Wanderer in order to make up for the stealing of buffalo meat to feed their people?

2. What do the white women do to Naduah when she arrives at the fort after her capture by white raiders?

3. What is bartering?

4. What does Wanderer trade for the guns in Chapter 41?

5. What name is given to Naduah and Wanderer's first child?

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