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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. What does Old Lodge Skins have a dream about?
(a) Antelope.
(b) Rain.
(c) Jack.
(d) The white soldiers.

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

3. What language does Pa believe the Native Americans speak?
(a) Latin.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Italian.
(d) Hebrew.

4. Why does a Crow warrior attack Younger Bear and Jack?
(a) To take their belongings.
(b) To take them captive and force them to grow up the Crow way.
(c) To steal their horses.
(d) To stop them from helping the Cheyenne warriors in stealing their horses.

5. What else does Mr. Pendrake warn Jack about in their discussion about sin?
(a) The temptation of rich food.
(b) The temptation of women.
(c) The temptation of gambling.
(d) The temptation of alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What expedition does Lavender claim one of his relatives traveled with?

2. What does Old Lodge Skins do when a herd of antelope approach the prairie where he has been meditating?

3. How does Jack offend one of the Cheyenne children with whom he plays in chapter 3?

4. Who is the brave who fights the Snake people, or Comanche, in a story Old Lodge Skins tells Jack?

5. What trail does the wagon train that the Crabb family joins take?

Short Essay Questions

1. What shocks Jack about being back among the White culture?

2. What happens to the business Jack builds in Denver?

3. Who adopts Jack shortly after his return to White society?

4. What causes Younger Bear to become enraged by Jack and to exclude Jack from the boys' play?

5. What crime is Jack accused of shortly after returning to the White schools?

6. What activity does Jack participate in to help him become a man?

7. Who is killed during a fight with Jack? What has the dead man left behind?

8. Who does Jack stop from attacking Younger Bear?

9. Where does Jack go after leaving the Pendrakes?

10. How does Jack come to arrive at Old Lodge Skins' tepee again?

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