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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 is count coup?

2. What does Jack think of Mr. Pendrake's sins?

3. Why did the Whites attack a Sioux village in chapter 5?

4. Who does Jack find in the bushes?

5. Where does Jack settle in chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Jack decide to leave the Pendrake family?

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

5. What causes the Indians to attack the people of the wagon train?

6. Why does Old Lodge Skins tell Jack he does not have to participate in a fight with white soldiers?

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

8. What treaty does Jack talk Old Lodge Skins out of signing?

9. Why did Kane, the shopkeeper, have to leave town?

10. What happens to Jack's family during a stage coach ride to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Bill? Why does he appear to be unwashed? What does this signify? Why does Jack not tell Bill who he is? What is the significance of the snake heads in Bill's barrel of whiskey? Why does this nearly cause the men to kill Bill? Why does Jack do nothing to stop this situation? What does Bill represent in Jack's mind?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the one of the following settings in detail:

1) Little Big Horn

2) Denver, Colorado

3) Cheyenne villages

4) Platte River valley.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following themes in detail:

1) Family

2) Warring Cultures

3) Manifest Destiny

4) Lies and betrayal.

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