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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Evie's child?
(a) Duane.
(b) Harley.
(c) Charlene.
(d) Frank.

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

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

4. What kind of a culture has Jeannette found?
(a) One that is alive and well.
(b) One that is dead.
(c) A very superstitious one.
(d) A strange one.

5. Where do the four Sioux warriors take Hurley?
(a) To a sweat lodge.
(b) To the reservation.
(c) To Clara Miller's homestead.
(d) To a tunnel.

6. How will Frank be trained?
(a) To be a doctor.
(b) In the ways of the blood medicine.
(c) To be a counselor.
(d) To be the tribal shaman.

7. What does Anna offer Jeannette?
(a) Cookies.
(b) A ride home.
(c) A place to stay.
(d) Insults and canned peaches.

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

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

10. What is North Dakota?
(a) A lush, tropical jungle.
(b) A southern state.
(c) Fertile farmland.
(d) A dust bowl.

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

12. What does Lydia do when she smells alcohol on Harley's breath?
(a) She begins to cry.
(b) She hugs him.
(c) She slaps him.
(d) She falls to her knees.

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

14. What does the tribal chief order his people not to use?
(a) Sioux weapons.
(b) White people's inventions.
(c) Shaman medicine.
(d) The potatoes from the field.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the twins feel about their mother's religion?

2. What does Harley do to honor Pumpkin?

3. Who scares Crystal?

4. What does Calvin do after his marriage to Lydia?

5. What does Red Dress bewitch the men to do?

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