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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 does Bear Cub consider a slow death in his life outside Old Owl's band?

2. Who is Iron Shirt?

3. How many members of the raiding party were killed at Plum Creek?

4. Why does Old Owl return Bear Cub to the white man in Chapter 34?

5. Why is Naduah caught by the raiders in Chapter 53?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Wanderer's raiding party not use guns and what is the result?

10. Why do the Comanche find themselves forced to trespass on Tanawa territory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the overall theme of Cynthia Ann Parker's life? Why did she become so comfortable with the Indians? Why was this looked down on by white society? Why did white people have such a hard time understanding the Indian way of life? Why did the white people fear Indians? Were all Indians cruel to the whites? What caused the raid that took Cynthia into Indian captivity? Did Cynthia consider herself a captive? How might relations between whites and Indians have been handled differently? Should they have been?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Eagle? Why does he sacrifice himself for Wanderer? What relationship is Eagle involved in that threatens to bring shame on him and his love? Why does Eagle continue this relationship when he knows it could cause him shame? Whose child is it rumored Eagle has fathered? What happens to this woman, to this child? Who kills Eagle? For what reason? What revenge plan is hatched to avenge Eagle's murder? How does this lead to Cynthia Ann Parker returning to her white family?

Essay Topic 3

What is white man's disease? How does white man's disease spread to the Indians? How does Neduah keep smallpox from spreading through the Wasp band? Which disease finally kills Old Owl? How does Bear Cub react to this knowledge? How does Bear Cub contract this disease? Does he survive? What disease kills Neduah's Indian parents and grandmother? How does she react to this news? Could this devastation have been prevented?

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