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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Jeanne in the flashback where the Colonel is ninety-eight in Chapter Five?
(a) Eight.
(b) Three.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Six.

2. What is done with Martin’s body after he is killed in Chapter Four?
(a) It is dismembered.
(b) It is burned.
(c) It is left for wolves.
(d) It is buried.

3. Chapter Four begins in the spring of what year?
(a) 1841.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1849.

4. What is the name of the boy that was kidnapped and killed by Indians a month before the raid on Eli’s family’s home?
(a) Miles Wallace.
(b) Tom Whipple.
(c) Amado Batista.
(d) Owen Wister.

5. Where is Glenn recovering in the hospital in Chapter Nine?
(a) Dallas.
(b) San Antonio.
(c) Houston.
(d) Los Angeles.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrative of Chapter One is transcribed from a WPA Recording in what year?

2. Over how many of Eli’s fellow tribe members are killed during the big raid in Chapter Nineteen?

3. What is the name of Prairie Flower’s sister in the novel?

4. What people does Toshaway say were leading the white men that attacked his tribe in Chapter Twenty-two?

5. When is Chapter Twenty-two set?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Jeanne’s opinions of the Garcia family? How did Jeanne develop these opinions?

2. How are the circumstances of Eli’s Indian tribe described in 1851 in Chapter Twenty-two?

3. What are Jeanne’s perceptions of her classmates at the girl’s boarding school in Chapter Seventeen?

4. How are the living conditions of the Indians described in Chapter Nineteen?

5. How is the theme of ethnic bias illustrated in Chapters Nine through Thirteen?

6. What is related about Eli McCullough’s early life in Chapter One? Why do you think this information is important?

7. What information is related regarding Jeanne’s mother in Chapter Five?

8. How do the Colonel and Charles differ in their viewpoints about their land and future?

9. What prompts Jeanne’s decision to side with Phineas in Chapter Twenty?

10. How are Peter and Eli McCullough different in their outlooks and approaches to life?

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