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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Cheyenne teach their children?
(a) Through example.
(b) Through storytelling.
(c) Through organized classes.
(d) Through language.

2. How does Jack convince Burns Red in the Sun of his true identity?
(a) Shows him a birthmark.
(b) Tells him of a gift horse he gave him at Powder River.
(c) Shows him a scar.
(d) Tells him his nickname.

3. What does Jack allow Muldoon to believe about him in chapter 8?
(a) That he does not understand English anymore.
(b) That he is blind.
(c) That is an idiot from torture.
(d) That he is deaf.

4. Who does Jack see selling liquor around the fort?
(a) His niece, Amelia.
(b) His mother.
(c) His sister, Caroline.
(d) His brother, Bill.

5. What is Kane accused of doing?
(a) Cheating at poker.
(b) Stealing.
(c) Having an affair with a married woman.
(d) Impregnating a sixteen year old girl.

6. What is a name the offended child gives to Jack out of anger for his actions?
(a) Little Man.
(b) Dirt on Nose.
(c) Horse Herder.
(d) Antelope Girl.

7. What trail does the wagon train that the Crabb family joins take?
(a) Donner Party Trail.
(b) California Trail.
(c) New Mexico Trail.
(d) Utah Trail.

8. Who eventually adopts Jack?
(a) A military officer.
(b) A reverend.
(c) A shopkeeper.
(d) A schoolteacher.

9. How do Cheyenne think of their horses?
(a) They are Cheyenne too.
(b) They are there to transport warriors only.
(c) They are Earth's children.
(d) They are potential meat.

10. What information does the soldier, Muldoon, try to get from Jack when he returns him to white civilization?
(a) Cheyenne battle methods.
(b) His experiences living with the Cheyenne.
(c) The Cheyenne language.
(d) The location of the Cheyenne.

11. How does Jack offend one of the Cheyenne children with whom he plays in chapter 3?
(a) By hitting the boy in the nose.
(b) By playing their games the wrong way.
(c) By showing concern for a wound he caused.
(d) By refusing to acknowledge an act of kindness.

12. How does the fight end?
(a) A Pawnee scout kills Jack's Indian friend.
(b) Jack convinces his old friend of his identity.
(c) The Indians retreat.
(d) The old friend recognizes Jack.

13. Why does Jack get into a fight with one of the school children?
(a) The boy teases Jack.
(b) Jack is unhappy in white society.
(c) Jack is only playing in the Cheyenne way.
(d) The boy is smarter than Jack.

14. Why was Old Lodge Skins band forced out of the larger Cheyenne band twice?
(a) Old Lodge's Skins refusal to fight the white man.
(b) Power struggles.
(c) Personality conflict.
(d) Fights over women.

15. Who is the brave who fights the Snake people, or Comanche, in a story Old Lodge Skins tells Jack?
(a) Little Man.
(b) Shadow in Sunlight.
(c) Sunshine.
(d) Snake Brave.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jack find Mrs. Pandrake making love with?

2. Why does Jack engage in a fight with the Cheyenne at Plum Creek in chapter 15?

3. What does Jack say the Cheyenne women do to the corpses of their enemies?

4. Who steals all of Jack's gold mining supplies on the way to Colorado?

5. How does Jack feel about Mrs. Pendrake?

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