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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 Victoria get drunk on for the first time?

2. At Washita River, four years after Sand Creek, how many Indian horses were shot in the head?

3. How long after Pratt had been forced into an early retirement did Roosevelt use Indians for his inaugural parade?

4. When were 71 Indian men and one Indian woman taken as prisoners of war in Oklahoma and sent to Florida to a start-shaped prison-castle?

5. Where did Charles Star go the first time he ran away from the school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Victoria learn that she is Indian?

2. Who was Hannah, and how did she and Jude meet?

3. What does Opal do with Charles's body?

4. Why did Opal leave Charles?

5. How is Charles shot?

6. Who is the father of Victoria's first child, and how does she meet him?

7. What happened after a failed escape attempt from the prison-castle?

8. How did Charles become addicted to laudanum?

9. What did Pratt remember about a train ride in 1875?

10. Why was Jude late for a ceremony to help cure Bear Shield's wife?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Victoria is raised by a white man and woman. How is Victoria affected by her upbringing in a white family, and how does she respond when she learns her birth parents were Indian?

Essay Topic 2

Sean struggles to live with his brother and father after his mother died. Why does he struggle to live with them? How would you describe the relationship Sean had with his father and brother, and how it affects his life?

Essay Topic 3

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon her interpretation of life. How does Orange use artistic license to create the realistic background of Wandering Stars?

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