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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. How does May describe some farmers in the field?
(a) Healthy and successful, plowing beautiful fields.
(b) Very interested in the women.
(c) Gaunt and hopeless as they try to plow the fields.
(d) Lazy and shiftless with fields that suffer from neglect.

2. Why is Helen Flight interested in birds?
(a) She collects recipes for cooking birds.
(b) She is a naturalist.
(c) She designs hats and uses their feathers.
(d) She studies bird anatomy and physiology.

3. After May returns to her tent, what is Martha most concerned about?
(a) May will marry Captain Bourke.
(b) Captain Bourke will refuse to allow May to become a bride.
(c) May will leave her and the group.
(d) Captain Bourke will refuse to continue to accompany them.

4. What is Captain Bourke concerned about when he is alone with May in his tent?
(a) Any sense of impropriety that might concern May.
(b) The possibility that he will be demoted.
(c) Their future together.
(d) Her being forbidden to become an Indian bride.

5. How does May describe herself during a conversation at the dinner table about religion?
(a) A bit of an agnostic.
(b) An Anglican.
(c) A Protestant.
(d) A Catholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. One night at dinner, as the party nears Indian territory, what does Daisy tell them about her father?

2. What does May observe about Indian social structure?

3. How does May describe her first few days with the tribe?

4. How does May feel about the countryside they are traveling through to meet the Indians?

5. During the dinner conversation, Lydia Bradley tries to turn the conversation to what subject?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Helen and May have in common?

2. After encountering Jules Seminole, how does May feel about Chief Little Wolf?

3. How does May feel about the Indian's relationship with nature and their lives in the camp?

4. What happens at the shooting tournament?

5. Where does Chief Little Wolf go after the night of whiskey, and how does he return?

6. Who is Martha, and how does she help May?

7. Who will May be living with in her new life with the tribe?

8. How do the white women originally learn to communicate with the Cheyenne?

9. How does Captain Bourke feel about their mission and the attempt to civilize the Indians?

10. What is the proposal that Chief Little Wolf presents to President Grant and why?

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