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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has Lydia planned to marry Calvin?
(a) Since she is eight.
(b) Since she is fifteen.
(c) Since she is ten.
(d) Since she is five.

2. Why does Calvin go to Korea?
(a) He wants to learn more about the Korean culture.
(b) He is fluent in Korean.
(c) He is half-Korean.
(d) He joins the Army and is deployed there.

3. How does Lydia meet Calvin Wind Soldier?
(a) At church.
(b) At a bar.
(c) She almost runs him over in her car.
(d) In a restaurant.

4. Who goes with Red Dress to this fort?
(a) Her brother, Long Fellow.
(b) Father La Frambois.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her brother, Long Chase.

5. Why does Anna blame Joyce for her son's death?
(a) Joyce makes him dance until he dies.
(b) Joyce poisons him.
(c) Joyce said she would get a doctor but takes Dina to a powwow instead.
(d) Joyce is babysitting him when he dies.

6. What does Harley do to honor Pumpkin?
(a) He sings a song about her.
(b) He creates a scholarship in her name.
(c) He wears a grass dance costume incorporating the colors she had worn when she won the grass dance contest.
(d) He makes a painting of her.

7. Why does Charlene put eyelashes in the cupcakes?
(a) To show respect to Red Dress.
(b) To poison everyone at the powwow.
(c) To bring good luck to the tribe.
(d) To seduce the boys that eat the cupcakes.

8. Who is Father La Frambois?
(a) Red Dress' killer.
(b) An Episcopalian priest.
(c) The pastor at Fort Laramie.
(d) A Catholic priest.

9. Of whom does Dina dream?
(a) Red Dress.
(b) Anna.
(c) Chaske.
(d) Joyce.

10. What makes Evelyn envious?
(a) Harley is more attractive than Duane.
(b) Lydia is born first.
(c) Lydia starts her menses before Evelyn.
(d) Lydia has a more attractive husband.

11. Whose hand is pressing on Charlene's chest?
(a) Harley's.
(b) Pumpkin's.
(c) Red Dress'.
(d) Her grandmother's.

12. What does Reverend Pyke have Red Dress translate?
(a) The Louisiana Purchase.
(b) Sermons and other Christian writings into the Sioux tongue.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Declaration of Independence.

13. To what bird do some compare Mercury?
(a) A robin.
(b) A hawk.
(c) A killdeer bird.
(d) A blackbird.

14. How does Dina die?
(a) She dance all night, caught in a spell, and dies of exposure.
(b) She is murdered by a soldier.
(c) She is poisoned.
(d) She contracts tuberculosis from Chaske.

15. Who does Harley see as he leans against the wall?
(a) Generations of prisoners in their spirit form.
(b) Generations of Sioux.
(c) Generations of Wind Soldiers.
(d) Generations of the U.S. cavalry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are her son and niece doing?

2. Who does Lydia adore?

3. Who is Jeannette to marry?

4. From where is Jeannette?

5. What does Mercury have with her?

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