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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 Wanderer trade for the guns in Chapter 41?

2. What does Naduah do when she learns her Indian family has all died in Chapter 49?

3. Who dies of cholera in Chapter 44?

4. Where does Naduah want to winter in Chapter 42?

5. Why is Naduah not allowed to go on a raid with the Comanches against the white man?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discuss the following elements of the novel:

1) Setting

2) Point of view

3) Structure.

Essay Topic 3

In the end of the novel, both Cynthia and her Indian husband, Wanderer, die. Why do they die? What does this say about the way they feel for one another? What does this say about Cynthia's feelings for the Indian way of life? How does Cynthia's death compare with Rachel's? Did they die of similar causes? What might Rachel's life have been like if she had not been captured or had been rescued sooner? How might Cynthia's life have ended differently if she had not been captured or was rescued sooner?

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