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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. What is Naduah's dowry in her marriage to Wanderer?
(a) Ten horses.
(b) One horse.
(c) One hundred horses.
(d) Twenty horses.

2. Who heals Wanderer's injury in Chapter 50?
(a) Naduah.
(b) Pecan.
(c) Medicine Woman.
(d) Quanah.

3. Why does Elder James Parker beat Bear Cub on a regular basis?
(a) To teach him how to behave in civilized society.
(b) To punish him for going off with the Indians.
(c) To beat the evil, meaning the Indian ways, out of him.
(d) To punish him for not following the rules.

4. What do New Mexican poachers trade with Wanderer in order to make up for the stealing of buffalo meat to feed their people?
(a) Gold.
(b) Horses.
(c) Corn bread.
(d) Turquoise.

5. Who have the soldiers killed in Chapter 53?
(a) Only children and old women.
(b) Only women, children, and old men.
(c) Only women, children, and livestock.
(d) Only elderly women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Small Hands?

2. What does the trader try to tell Wanderer and Naduah about Texas and their ability to beat them in a war?

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

4. How long has Bear Cub been a member of Old Owl's band?

5. Why does Old Owl return Bear Cub to the white man in Chapter 34?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Naduah find herself a captive of the white man? Who led them to Naduah, therefore fulfilling his promise to Wanderer?

2. How do the Indians prefer to live their lives?

3. Why does Wanderer struggle with the decision to leave Naduah in order to rejoin his father's band in the North?

4. What is significant about the man Naduah kills during a raid by white soldiers?

5. How does Old Owl die? What happens to his remains?

6. What does Wanderer convinces the mayordomo of a New Mexico Indian tribe he must do?

7. Why does Naduah agree to go with Cynthia Ann Parker's uncle after her capture by white soldiers?

8. What does Old Owl's actions in the face of pressure from the white people to return Bear Cub say about his strengths as a leader?

9. What does Sunrise offer for Naduah's dowry when she marries Wanderer? What is unusual about this?

10. What news does Bear Cub bring to Wanderer's band when he catches up to them?

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