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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What happens to the women who try to escape from the camp?
(a) They are caught by members of the Cheyenne.
(b) They are found dead due to exposure and starvation.
(c) They are able to meet up with a passing wagon train.
(d) They are able to make their way back to the fort.
2. What things were an important part of the wedding ceremony?
(a) Food and instruction on how to prepare this special food.
(b) Music, singing, and dancing.
(c) Instructions on how to be good Indian wives.
(d) Instructions on properly serving their new husbands.
3. How does May describe the Indian's hunting?
(a) Dangerous and necessary to the survival of the tribe.
(b) Haphazard and avoided by most.
(c) Frivolous and done for sport.
(d) Necessary but not particularly challenging.
4. How does May describe her first few days with the tribe?
(a) Spent under guard in her tent.
(b) Spent learning sign language.
(c) Boring and tedious with nothing to do.
(d) Full of hard, physical labor and no privacy.
5. During the dinner conversation, Lydia Bradley tries to turn the conversation to what subject?
(a) Her new dress and the latest New York fashion.
(b) The ladies' sewing circle.
(c) Her new hat and the latest New York fashion.
(d) The need for more gardens at the fort.
6. Why is Helen pleased the last part of the trip as they approach Cheyenne territory?
(a) She can shoot birds for a sumptuous dinner.
(b) She can shoot birds and collect their feathers.
(c) She can shoot birds she uses to make special medicines.
(d) She can shoot the birds that she draws.
7. What is Reverend Hare doing in all the commotion?
(a) Cowering in a corner, afraid of what is happening.
(b) He has already left the camp.
(c) Ready to help the women escape the camp.
(d) Ready to help the women restore order.
8. How do the women first meet some of the members of the Cheyenne tribe?
(a) They come to bring gifts to the women.
(b) The Indians ride through the women's camp in a parade.
(c) They come to inspect the women.
(d) They are engaged in a battle with the Sioux.
9. What is Captain Bourke disturbed to learn about what the women don't know?
(a) That they could be abandoned if they were not selected.
(b) They had no way of ending their agreement.
(c) That they would not be able to return to the fort for their safety.
(d) They were not given information about the life they would face.
10. What does May tell Harry in a letter?
(a) She knows he is probably dead.
(b) She is glad to be rid of him because she knows he cheated on her.
(c) She knows he sold her out to her father for money and a job.
(d) She will never know if he cooperated with her father or loves her.
11. Who is Euphemia Washington?
(a) A colored woman who wanted to go West.
(b) A "statuesque colored girl" with a beautiful voice.
(c) A colored woman whose husband beat her.
(d) A beautiful colored woman who was sold into the Brides for Indians.
12. What does May learn about Jimmy during the last days of the trip?
(a) Jimmy is really a military spy.
(b) Jimmy is really a girl named Dirty Gertie.
(c) Jimmy plans on trading some guns with the Indians.
(d) Jimmy is spying on Captain Bourke.
13. What effect does Phemie's victory in the races have on the women?
(a) They decide to demand qual treatment.
(b) They are united in their pleasure that a woman won.
(c) They are frightened about how the men will react.
(d) It has no effect at all.
14. Who is the Kelly twins' ace-in-the-hole in their gambling enterprise?
(a) May.
(b) Helen.
(c) Narcissa.
(d) Gretchen.
15. How is Gretchen Fathauer described?
(a) The very picture of the blond, Swiss lass with pigtails.
(b) A poor, shy woman.
(c) A large, Swiss woman with a heart of gold.
(d) A beautiful German woman.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does May describe Captain Bourke?
2. Why does Martha decide to join the Brides for Indians program?
3. What does May see is so damaging to the Indians?
4. What information does the blacksmith's family that houses Phemie tell about the Cheyenne?
5. What two things does May stop doing because of the cruel way she is treated while staying with the family of Lieutenant James?
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