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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What do other Sioux on the reservation call Anna?
(a) "Aphrodite, goddess of Desire."
(b) "An evil witch."
(c) "Venus da Milo."
(d) "Bacchus, God of Wine."

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

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

5. What does Calvin do after his marriage to Lydia?
(a) He stops drinking and joins the tribal police force.
(b) He stops working.
(c) He becomes a Catholic.
(d) He gives up his religion.

6. Why are the Sioux not willing to convert?
(a) They are very attached to their ways.
(b) They do not like the priests.
(c) The priest's stories do not make any sense.
(d) They are frightened of their gods.

7. How does Charlene learn about her parents?
(a) From a newspaper clipping.
(b) From her grandmother.
(c) From Jeannette.
(d) From a neighbor.

8. Of what aspects of his friends and family does Harley think?
(a) Fears.
(b) Flaws.
(c) Faults.
(d) Talents.

9. Who does Anna ask for help in summoning Bernadine?
(a) Red Dress.
(b) Charles.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Ghost Horse.

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

11. Who scares Crystal?
(a) Charlene.
(b) Red Dress.
(c) Anna.
(d) Harley.

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

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

14. How do the twins feel about their mother's religion?
(a) Safe.
(b) Unsure.
(c) Suffocated.
(d) Scared.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Calvin and Evie begin an affair as a result of what?

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

3. With what play does Red Dress assist Fanny?

4. How does Anna's husband die?

5. What perfume is Jeannette wearing?

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