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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens on the way home from Linnville to the raiding party?

2. How long after his rescue does John Parker/Bear Cub return to Old Owl's band?

3. What does Naduah dislike about the reaction of the other girls upon Wanderer's return in Chapter 35?

4. Why are the soldiers disgusted by Naduah in Chapter 54?

5. What is Naduah's dowry in her marriage to Wanderer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What decision does Bear Cub make in chapter 47 that Naduah deeply disagrees with, causing her to disown him as her brother?

4. Why do the Comanche find themselves forced to trespass on Tanawa territory?

5. Why does Wanderer fail to search for Naduah immediately after her capture?

6. Where is Naduah taken after her capture? For what purpose?

7. What promise does Placido make when he faces Wanderer during a raid by white soldiers?

8. Why does Wanderer's raiding party not use guns and what is the result?

9. How does Wanderer react when Len Williams offers to pay a ransom for Naduah?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the search for the white captives by white society. Why do they not search for the Parkers immediately? Why do they pay a ransom for Rachel and John upon their discovery? Do the traders who search for the captives have honest intentions? Do the white captives want to return to their homes and families? Why or why not? How does Rachel feel when she goes back to white society? Why does she die so young? Could Rachel's husband have waited longer for her? Why did he not?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Rachel? How is Rachel treated by her Indian captives? For what reason do they treat Rachel in this way? Why is there such a contrast between the way Rachel is treated and the way the Parker children are treated? Are the Parkers treated so different because they are children? What might have happened to Cynthia if she had been a few years older? Why is Rachel's child killed? How does she feel about this? Why does Rachel blame her husband for not rescuing her sooner? What might Rachel's husband have done?

Essay Topic 3

In the end of the novel, both Cynthia and her Indian husband, Wanderer, die. Why do they die? What does this say about the way they feel for one another? What does this say about Cynthia's feelings for the Indian way of life? How does Cynthia's death compare with Rachel's? Did they die of similar causes? What might Rachel's life have been like if she had not been captured or had been rescued sooner? How might Cynthia's life have ended differently if she had not been captured or was rescued sooner?

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