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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is this story?
(a) A complexly woven tale.
(b) A simple tale.
(c) A boring tale.
(d) A fantasy tale.

2. About what does Henry hallucinate?
(a) His girlfriend.
(b) Flowers in a field.
(c) Red Dress.
(d) Ghosts of Sioux are speaking to him in the old tongue.

3. What happens to this character when he eats the corn soup?
(a) He gets violently ill.
(b) He is quite amenable to climbing to the roof and hanging the lights.
(c) It makes him dizzy.
(d) He loves it.

4. What does Margaret Many Wounds request of her grandson, Harley Wind Soldier?
(a) To bury her rosary in the yard.
(b) To call the priest.
(c) To make her dinner.
(d) To get her a rosary.

5. What is surprising about Herod's reaction to the female grass dancer?
(a) He tells Frank to remove her from the arena.
(b) He asks for more females grass dancers.
(c) He is shocked to see a female dancer.
(d) Frank is surprised that his traditional grandfather would welcome a female grass dancer.

6. What does Crystal decide she will do when her mother-in-law comes to visit?
(a) She will go back to the reservation.
(b) She will stay in a hotel.
(c) She will visit her mother.
(d) She will be the perfect daughter-in-law.

7. Why is Lloyd taunting Henry?
(a) Henry stutters.
(b) Henry girlfriend leaves him.
(c) Henry's girlfriend has been unfaithful.
(d) Henry trips and falls.

8. What do the sisters do after their mother's death?
(a) They take her body to the shaman.
(b) They wash and paint her face in the old way.
(c) They say a Catholic prayer.
(d) They bury her in the Catholic tradition.

9. What does Margaret request?
(a) A large meal.
(b) A Bible.
(c) A ring.
(d) A mirror.

10. Who is the blond "Easterner" who comes to teach at the reservation because of her fascination with Native American culture?
(a) Pumpkin Light Rain.
(b) Jeannett McVay.
(c) Dina Thunder.
(d) Chaske Bauer.

11. Why is Mercury confined to a wheelchair?
(a) She has multiple sclerosis.
(b) She has arthritis.
(c) She is pretending to be crippled.
(d) She is in an automobile accident.

12. What is added to the corn soup?
(a) Corn.
(b) Broth.
(c) A spell.
(d) Herbs.

13. Why does Henry move from beer to hard liquor?
(a) He is tired of beer.
(b) To numb the pain about Jeannette.
(c) His friend buys the liquor.
(d) It tastes better.

14. Why does Crystal protect the turtle amulet?
(a) Her husband gives it to her.
(b) She believes in doing so she is protecting her daughter.
(c) It is a gift from her mother-in-law.
(d) It is a gift from her father.

15. What do Evie and Lydia do for several days?
(a) They watch Neil Armstrong on television.
(b) They ignore their mother's requests.
(c) They care for their mother.
(d) They play cards.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Archie, Harley, Frank, and Herod head off on horseback?

2. Who is thanked for the powwow?

3. Who does Margaret refuse to let in her house?

4. What happens the more Jeannette assimilates the Sioux culture into her life?

5. Who does Crystal admire?

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