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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. What does Wanderer trade for the guns in Chapter 41?
(a) Gold.
(b) Horses.
(c) Grain.
(d) Turquiose.

2. Who is Iron Shirt?
(a) Wanderer's cousin.
(b) Wanderer's uncle.
(c) Wanderer's brother.
(d) Wanderer's father.

3. What does Bear Cub consider a slow death in his life outside Old Owl's band?
(a) Living on a farm.
(b) Living with the Parker family.
(c) Living in a house and wearing white man's clothing.
(d) Living in the city.

4. Why does Elder James Parker beat Bear Cub on a regular basis?
(a) To punish him for going off with the Indians.
(b) To beat the evil, meaning the Indian ways, out of him.
(c) To teach him how to behave in civilized society.
(d) To punish him for not following the rules.

5. What injury does Wanderer suffer during a raid in Chapter 50?
(a) A near scalping.
(b) A bullet wound.
(c) An arrow wound.
(d) A knife wound.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news greets Wanderer when he returns to the Wasp camp after the ambush at Plum Creek?

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

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

4. Why do Comanche boys go on vision quests?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Plum Creek? What happens there?

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

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

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

5. What decision does Bear Cub make in chapter 47 that Naduah deeply disagrees with, causing her to disown him as her brother?

6. How does Naduah find herself a captive of the white man? Who led them to Naduah, therefore fulfilling his promise to Wanderer?

7. What, to Buffalo Piss, is like asking an Indian to stop breathing?

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

9. By 1854, how many years has it been since Cynthia Ann Parker's capture by the Comanche?

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

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