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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. Where do the Quohadi live?
2. What weapon does Wanderer take from the raid in Chapter 50?
3. What does Naduah do when the women at the fort are done with her in Chapter 54?
4. What vaccine do the white men refuse to give the Wasp band in Chapter 48?
5. Why have the Quohadi broken from the southern Comanche bands?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do the Comanche find themselves forced to trespass on Tanawa territory?
2. Why does Wanderer take guns and ammunition from a Texas settlement he and Buffalo Piss have raided with a group of warriors?
3. Why is Naduah afraid of a group of white traders who come to the Naconi camp?
4. What does Wanderer convinces the mayordomo of a New Mexico Indian tribe he must do?
5. What happens between Wanderer and his father after the failed battle with the white man's five shooters?
6. By whom is Naduah spotted during a raid by the Noconi? What happens as a result?
7. Why do Naduah and Wanderer travel to meet up with the Quohadi tribe?
8. Where is Naduah taken after her capture? For what purpose?
9. How does Naduah find herself a captive of the white man? Who led them to Naduah, therefore fulfilling his promise to Wanderer?
10. How does Wanderer react when Len Williams offers to pay a ransom for Naduah?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the following elements of the novel:
1) Setting
2) Point of view
3) Structure.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Who is Cynthia Ann Parker? Why is Cynthia Ann kidnapped by the Comanche Indians? What was Cynthia doing at Parker's Fort in the first place? What do the Comanche intend to do with her? Why did the Indians target children for captivity? What is Cynthia's role among the Indians? Why does Cynthia adjust to life with the Indians so quickly? Is this because she is a child or because she disliked her previous situation?
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