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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 does Wanderer trade for the guns in Chapter 41?

2. Who is Iron Shirt?

3. Where does Wanderer concentrate his raids in the winter of 1849?

4. Who assisted the white raiders in finding the Naconi camp in Chapter 53?

5. Why do Wanderer and Buffalo Piss become angry with Pahayuca in the fall of 1854?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do Naduah and Wanderer travel to meet up with the Quohadi tribe?

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

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

5. Why does Wanderer take guns and ammunition from a Texas settlement he and Buffalo Piss have raided with a group of warriors?

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

7. By 1854, how many years has it been since Cynthia Ann Parker's capture by the Comanche?

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

9. By whom is Naduah spotted during a raid by the Noconi? What happens as a result?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss each of the following relationships in detail:

1) Naduah and Wanderer

2) Naduah and Bear Cub

3) Cynthia Ann and John Parker

4) Naduah and Medicine Woman.

Essay Topic 2

The story of Cynthia Ann Parker is based on fact. How has the author fictionalized the story? What changes were made? For what reason? How much of this novel is based on fact? How does the author present the true facts of the novel? Did the author stay close to the truth?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Bear Cub? Why does Bear Cub speak English when talking about his white family, but uses the Comanche language the rest of the time? What does this say about Bear Cub's loyalties? Why is Bear Cub returned to white society? How does Bear Cub feel about this change in circumstances? How does Bear Cub return to the Comanches? Why does Bear Cub go on a vision quest? Why does Bear Cub eventually decide to live on a ranch in Mexico? What does this say about Bear Cub's loyalties now? Is Bear Cub being smart or unfair?

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