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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frank remember as he is telling the tale of the tricky spider?
(a) A time when someone is going around killing reservation dogs and coyotes.
(b) A part of the story he had left out.
(c) A story that he wishes he had told instead.
(d) That he forgot his homework at home.

2. Why do the early Native Americans believe what the priests say about heaven?
(a) The priests are kind.
(b) What the priest say is the truth.
(c) They are awestruck by the music of the pianao aboard the steamboat.
(d) They fear the priests.

3. What happens to Calvin Wind Soldier and his son Duane?
(a) They are kidnapped by Red Dress.
(b) They are killed in a car accident.
(c) They are bewitched by Charlene Thunder.
(d) They leave the reservation.

4. How does this chapter open?
(a) On the first day of a powwow in 1981.
(b) In Chicago in 1978.
(c) On a plantation in 1871.
(d) In Nebraska in 1951.

5. What is Mercury's original name?
(a) Anna.
(b) Red Dress.
(c) Crystal.
(d) Charlene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stories will Charlene not tell?

2. Of whom is Charlene Thunder a descendant?

3. What is Mercury Thunder?

4. Why is Mercury confined to a wheelchair?

5. When the two trucks collide, what happens to Calvin and Duane?

(see the answer key)

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