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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charlene request of Jeannette?
(a) A change of homerooms.
(b) To allow her to live with her.
(c) To teach her the Sioux ways.
(d) To leave the reservation.

2. Who does Charlene see dancing next to the bus?
(a) Red Dress.
(b) Mercury.
(c) Harley.
(d) Pumpkin.

3. From where is Jeannette?
(a) Indiana.
(b) North Dakota.
(c) California.
(d) Pennsylvania.

4. What do others say about Red Dress and snakes?
(a) She makes the snakes attack others.
(b) The snakes charm her.
(c) She can charm them.
(d) She eats the snakes.

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

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

7. What has Mercury done to Charlene's textbooks?
(a) Torn pages out of it.
(b) She has repaired them.
(c) She has sold them.
(d) She has destroyed them.

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

9. Why are Red Dress and Ghost Horse still searching for one another?
(a) They are lovers but never came together as man and woman.
(b) They are destined to have a child together.
(c) They are lost on the earth plane.
(d) They want to fight.

10. What does Anna invite Jeannette to do?
(a) Leave the reservation.
(b) Go to a powwow with her.
(c) Marry her son.
(d) Live with her.

11. Who forms an unlikely friendship?
(a) Red Dress and Fanny Brindle.
(b) Red Dress and Reverend Pyke.
(c) Fanny Brindle and Long Chase.
(d) Red Dress and Long Chase.

12. Why must Red Dress stay on the earth plane?
(a) Ghost Horse is unable to loose her spirit as is required in the ceremony.
(b) She is still alive.
(c) She is too evil to go to the spirit plane.
(d) She must wait for Ghost Horse who is still on the earth plane.

13. Why does Herod not allow Jeanette into the sweat lodge?
(a) She is on her menses.
(b) She is a stranger.
(c) She is not Sioux.
(d) He is in love with her.

14. What happens when Lydia tries to warm Calvin?
(a) She burns him.
(b) He becomes frightened and runs away.
(c) They become entangled and make love.
(d) He argues with her.

15. What must Harley do if he wants to be a man?
(a) He must go on a vision walk.
(b) He must not let his self-pity go on for too long.
(c) He must get his mother to speak.
(d) He must forgive his father for dying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mercury doing to Charlene?

2. What do the boys and Charlene do?

3. What does the tribal chief order his people not to use?

4. Who does Harley see as he leans against the wall?

5. Who appears to Charlene at Clara Miller's homestead?

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