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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rushes Bear disowns Nector after the birth of his child because:
(a) He is not home for the birth of his youngest child.
(b) He calls Marie a name.
(c) He has behaved selfishly and shamefully.
(d) He has refused to pay for the medicine woman.

2. June is like Marie in that:
(a) She comes from the dirty Lazarres and wants to prove herself.
(b) She belongs in the woods with Eli.
(c) She is tough, distrustful, and unwilling to show vulnerability.
(d) She is lonely, depressed, and wants to find a way out.

3. What event forces the final confrontation between Leopolda and Marie?
(a) Marie tries to push Leopolda into the oven.
(b) Leopolda scalds Marie's back with the tea kettle.
(c) Leopolda tries to push Marie into the oven.
(d) Marie stabs Leopolda with the poker.

4. Albertine is hardly acknowledged when she arrives at home because:
(a) She is being punished for June's death.
(b) She ruined her mother's hopes for the convent.
(c) She has interrupted a serious conversation.
(d) She is treated coolly by her relatives since moving away.

5. Why does Albertine feel the government's policy of allotment was a joke?
(a) The Native Americans were never allotted land.
(b) Most of the Native Americans left reservation land.
(c) The whites only allotted barren land to Indians.
(d) Most of the reservation land was sold to whites anyway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling will not allow Marie to rejoice in her defeat of Leopolda?

2. The beads around June's neck are:

3. What does Nector finally feel about the geese he was going to sell?

4. In what way does Albertine cause her mother's downfall?

5. When Marie does not cry out at the pain caused by her wounds or by Nector's restraint, what does this suggest?

(see the answer key)

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