Words that Sound or Look Alike Practice Exercises

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Words that Sound or Look Alike Study Guide

Words that Sound or Look Alike Practice Exercises

Practice 1: A Long Journey

Read the selection, and then answer the questions that follow.

1. Dull Knife, a leader of the Cheyenne, was born in Montana. His real name was Morning Star. He got his nickname when his knife failed to break through his enemy's tough, buffalo-hide armor.
2. In 1876, the Cheyenne helped defeat General Custer and his U.S. troops. Other soldiers pursued the Cheyenne, and a year later, the Native Americans surrendered. They were sent to a reservation in Oklahoma, where the army promised there was a herd of buffalo for hunting. There wasn't, and many Cheyenne died of starvation.
3. Dull Knife asked permission to take his people home. But the army took over a year to "think it over," and more Cheyenne died. Dull Knife knew he had to rebel. So the rebel leader and 300 of his people escaped from the reservation and headed for Montana, 1,000 miles away. When they crossed into Nebraska, soldiers there ordered Dull Knife and his people to return to the Oklahoma reservation. Dull Knife refused. "I will never go back, "he said. "You may kill me here, but you cannot make me go back!"
4. The soldiers wondered why Dull Knife would resent being resent, or sent back to Oklahoma. They tried to force him to agree to go. They threw him and his people into a freezing building with no food or water for three days. But the Cheyenne would not give up. Instead, they climbed out windows and escaped!
5. The soldiers chased the Cheyenne. Some were killed or captured, but some escaped, including Dull Knife and his family. They walked for 18 days, with only tree bark and their own moccasins to eat! At last, they reached Montana, where sympathetic settlers had heard what the Cheyenne did to survive. The people asked the government to set up a new Cheyenne reservation in Montana. Many Cheyenne still live there today.