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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does Wanderer find in Linnville that he feels Naduah will like?

2. Who assisted the white raiders in finding the Naconi camp in Chapter 53?

3. What does Wanderer teach Naduah to do in the desolate land of the Quahadi?

4. When did Sunrise agree to allow Wanderer to marry Naduah?

5. What happens on the way home from Linnville to the raiding party?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Naduah taken after her capture? For what purpose?

2. What promise does Placido make when he faces Wanderer during a raid by white soldiers?

3. By whom is Naduah spotted during a raid by the Noconi? What happens as a result?

4. What news does Bear Cub bring to Wanderer's band when he catches up to them?

5. Why does Wanderer struggle with the decision to leave Naduah in order to rejoin his father's band in the North?

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

7. Why is Naduah angry when Wanderer returns to the Wasp in order to find a wife?

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

9. Why does Bear Cub vow vengeance against Elder James Parker? What does Elder's actions say about white man's feeling toward Indians?

10. Why does Pahayuca make the decision to leave the reservation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss each of the following relationships in detail:

1) Naduah and Wanderer

2) Naduah and Bear Cub

3) Cynthia Ann and John Parker

4) Naduah and Medicine Woman.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the search for the white captives by white society. Why do they not search for the Parkers immediately? Why do they pay a ransom for Rachel and John upon their discovery? Do the traders who search for the captives have honest intentions? Do the white captives want to return to their homes and families? Why or why not? How does Rachel feel when she goes back to white society? Why does she die so young? Could Rachel's husband have waited longer for her? Why did he not?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Wanderer begin targeting settlements in Texas for his raids? What have the Texans done to bring this on? Who is right and who is wrong? What weapons do Wanderer and his band use against the Texans? Which weapons would Wanderer prefer to use? For what reason? What happens at Plum Creek? Could this have been prevented? Why was it not?

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