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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. Why have the Quohadi broken from the southern Comanche bands?

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

3. Why does Naduah avoid Wanderer during his visit in Chapter 35?

4. What do the soldiers quickly notice about Naduah in Chapter 54?

5. What does the trader try to tell Wanderer and Naduah about Texas and their ability to beat them in a war?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is Plum Creek? What happens there?

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

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

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

The story of Cynthia Ann Parker is based on fact. How has the author fictionalized the story? What changes were made? For what reason? How much of this novel is based on fact? How does the author present the true facts of the novel? Did the author stay close to the truth?

Essay Topic 3

Cynthia Ann Parker's character changes as the novel progresses. Discuss character growth. How does the author show the reader that Cynthia/Naduah has grown and changed? How does Cynthia forget her white roots and embrace her Indian way of life? How does the author show growth in John Parker/Bear Cub? Why does Bear Cub choose a different path than his sister? What does that say about his own personal growth? How does Rachel's story contrast with Cynthia's? Does this show growth for Cynthia? For Rachel?

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