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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Buffalo Piss come to the Quahadi in Chapter 38?
(a) To visit Wanderer.
(b) To ask for food.
(c) To talk about winter camp arrangements.
(d) To attend a war council.

2. What is causing the buffalo to become less prevalent on Indian lands during the novel's setting?
(a) Over hunting by the Indians.
(b) Colder winters.
(c) Illness.
(d) The migration of the white people.

3. Why does Wanderer tell Naduah he has returned to the Wasp band in Chapter 35?
(a) To help with the season's hunt.
(b) To avenge the death of a friend.
(c) To find a wife.
(d) To take over Pahayuca's job.

4. What injury does Wanderer suffer during a raid in Chapter 50?
(a) A bullet wound.
(b) An arrow wound.
(c) A near scalping.
(d) A knife wound.

5. Why does Bear Cub decide to leave the Indians in Chapter 47?
(a) The Indian life has changed.
(b) The Indians remind him too much of dead friends.
(c) The Indians are cruel to him.
(d) The Indians no longer do what he wants.

6. Why have the Quohadi broken from the southern Comanche bands?
(a) The southern bands raid other Comanche camps.
(b) The southern bands have stopped raiding.
(c) The southern bands have moved onto the reservations.
(d) The southern bands accused the Quohadi of collaberating with the white man.

7. What does Wanderer believe the Comanche need to fight the white man?
(a) Money.
(b) Guns.
(c) Maps.
(d) Knives.

8. What is bartering?
(a) Offering services for goods.
(b) Paying a set amount for goods or services.
(c) Negotiating a trade or price for goods or services.
(d) Attempting to steal goods or services.

9. What does the trader try to tell Wanderer and Naduah about Texas and their ability to beat them in a war?
(a) It has become a state in the union.
(b) It has become a republic.
(c) It has built up its own army with the Rangers.
(d) It has reverted back to Mexico.

10. Where does Bear Cub decide to settle in the end of Chapter 47?
(a) North Texas.
(b) A ranch in Mexico.
(c) Oklahoma.
(d) A farm in Illinois.

11. Why has Naduah grown unhappy with her life in Chapter 35?
(a) She misses white society.
(b) She misses Bear Cub.
(c) She misses her white family.
(d) She misses Wanderer.

12. When did Sunrise agree to allow Wanderer to marry Naduah?
(a) Seven days ago.
(b) Seven months ago.
(c) Seven weeks ago.
(d) Seven years ago.

13. Who is Small Hands?
(a) Bear Cub's friend.
(b) Bear Cub's sister.
(c) Bear Cub's cousin.
(d) Bear Cub's lover.

14. What is Bear Cub's Christian name?
(a) Silas Parker Jr.
(b) James Parker.
(c) Thomas Parker.
(d) John Parker.

15. What does this unhappiness with Pahayuca on the parts of Wanderer and Buffalo Piss illustrate about the feelings among Indians in this time period?
(a) That the older Indians are less willing to fight.
(b) That the older Indians are tired and bored with life.
(c) That the younger Indians are impetuous.
(d) That the younger Indians are hot heads.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Plum Creek?

2. What vaccine do the white men refuse to give the Wasp band in Chapter 48?

3. What do the Comanche think of the treaties the white man, who are intruding on Comanche land, are offering?

4. What happens when the Wasp band goes off on its own again in Chapter 48?

5. How do Naduah, Bear Cub, and Wanderer decide to deal with the spread of white man's disease?

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