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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does May feel about moving to the Agency?
(a) It will be a good move.
(b) The tribe will become wealthy traders.
(c) It will destroy the tribe.
(d) It is inevitable.

2. Why does May believe the Indians have not easily convert to Christianity?
(a) The don't like white people.
(b) They are sworn atheists.
(c) They have their own religion which satisfies them.
(d) They don't speak English well enough to understand.

3. What does the visitor bring to Anthony?
(a) Pictures of the Cheyenne.
(b) May's journals.
(c) The oral history of the Cheyenne.
(d) Documentation of the injustice.

4. What does Chief Little Wolf do that May warns will cause trouble?
(a) Threatens the settlers.
(b) Steals some of the settler's food.
(c) Kills some of the settler's cattle.
(d) Damages the settler's fields.

5. What does Anthony decide to do when the Cheyenne go to the Agency?
(a) Go West.
(b) Stay in the area and build his hermitage.
(c) Go back to his home.
(d) Go with the tribe to the Agency.

6. What happens when May and Captain Bourke meet again alone?
(a) They confess their love for each other.
(b) They realize they were never meant for each other.
(c) They decide to run away together.
(d) They discover they don't like each other any more.

7. Why does May feel the need to be close to Chief Little Wolf after the kidnapping ordeal?
(a) She is afraid he will now divorce her because she was raped.
(b) She is sure she is now his favorite wife.
(c) She is afraid to be in the tent with other members of her family.
(d) She is afraid and needs the comfort of his being close.

8. What happens when Bourke does not shock Chief Little Wolf in the "game?"
(a) He goes to live with the Indians.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He loses face with his men.
(d) He becomes the commander of the fort.

9. What does May learn from Gertie about the Captain?
(a) He intended to ask May to marry him.
(b) He had Gertie follow the tribe during the summer.
(c) He is preparing to wage war against the Cheyenne.
(d) He wants all of the women to abandon the mission.

10. How do the Cheyenne women explain the act of capturing the Shoshone infant's hands to May?
(a) A childish act that must be ignored.
(b) The act of a demented few.
(c) An act that protects the Cheyenne babies.
(d) An act of no importance.

11. Where does May have her baby?
(a) At the agency.
(b) In the birthing lodge.
(c) In her tent.
(d) At the fort.

12. What tribal tradition do Gretchen and May challenge?
(a) The use of the sweat-lodge.
(b) Eating in the men's tent.
(c) Marrying more than one man.
(d) Performing religious ceremonies.

13. What does Reverend Hare do to incur the wrath of members of the tribe?
(a) He tries to molest one of the young boys.
(b) He steals food when there is little.
(c) He propositions one of the married women.
(d) He steals horses and sells them to other Indian tribes for his profit.

14. How does May describe the sanitation at the camp?
(a) They use buckets which they later empty.
(b) They are directed to find a distant place in the bush.
(c) They ride a horse a short way from the camp.
(d) There is a central area, downwind of the camp, that all the people use.

15. What is the result of Reverend Hare's indiscretion?
(a) He is banished from the tribe.
(b) He is abandoned in the wilderness.
(c) He loses all credibility with the tribe.
(d) He is taken back to the fort and left there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "Seano?"

2. What does May observe about Anthony's sharing of his Christian faith?

3. Which of the women is the first to learn the Cheyenne language, and why is it so unusual?

4. How is the weather as the Indians leave the fort?

5. Who comes to see Anthony 50 years after the Army attacked the Cheyenne?

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