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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What news greets Wanderer when he returns to the Wasp camp after the ambush at Plum Creek?
(a) His father has been captured by white soldiers.
(b) Raids have killed his mother.
(c) Raids are decimating Comanche bands.
(d) His brother died at Plum Creek.

3. What do the Comanche think of the treaties the white man, who are intruding on Comanche land, are offering?
(a) They are less than the Comanche desearve.
(b) They are unfair to the Comanche.
(c) They are white man laws, not applicable to the Comanche.
(d) They have no intention of honoring them.

4. Why has Naduah grown unhappy with her life in Chapter 35?
(a) She misses her white family.
(b) She misses white society.
(c) She misses Bear Cub.
(d) She misses Wanderer.

5. Why does Buffalo Piss come to the Quahadi in Chapter 38?
(a) To talk about winter camp arrangements.
(b) To ask for food.
(c) To visit Wanderer.
(d) To attend a war council.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is cholera?

2. What causes the journey back from Plum Creek to be so difficult on young warriors like Upstream?

3. Why is the body of this character in Chapter 44 who died of cholera not buried, but burned?

4. How do Naduah, Bear Cub, and Wanderer decide to deal with the spread of white man's disease?

5. Why does Elder James Parker beat Bear Cub on a regular basis?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Wanderer take guns and ammunition from a Texas settlement he and Buffalo Piss have raided with a group of warriors?

2. Why do Naduah and Wanderer travel to meet up with the Quohadi tribe?

3. How does Old Owl die? What happens to his remains?

4. Why does Wanderer fail to search for Naduah immediately after her capture?

5. How do the Indians prefer to live their lives?

6. What does Sunrise offer for Naduah's dowry when she marries Wanderer? What is unusual about this?

7. Why does Naduah agree to go with Cynthia Ann Parker's uncle after her capture by white soldiers?

8. What does Wanderer convinces the mayordomo of a New Mexico Indian tribe he must do?

9. What happens between Wanderer and his father after the failed battle with the white man's five shooters?

10. What is significant about the man Naduah kills during a raid by white soldiers?

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