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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leopolda strikes Marie with the oak pole because:
(a) Marie smiles in class as if she senses the devil's presence.
(b) Marie has been looking through the children's bags.
(c) Marie has no confidence in Leopolda.
(d) Marie says she is not afraid of the dark one.

2. In what way does Albertine cause her mother's downfall?
(a) She leaves her children behind in her mother's care.
(b) She forces her mother to send her to nursing school.
(c) She causes her mother to leave the reservation.
(d) Her birth forces her mother to work instead of returning to the convent.

3. The neighborhood gossips come around asking about what?
(a) Why Nector goes into the woods alone with June.
(b) Why Eli spends time at the house and alone in the woods with June.
(c) The information Marie has about their husbands and children.
(d) Why June refuses to come to church, though she wears a rosary.

4. The beads around June's neck are:
(a) A rosary given to her by the nuns at the convent.
(b) The inheritance left to her by her father.
(c) A rosary given to her by the Crees who found her.
(d) Spirit beads left to her by her mother.

5. Why does Albertine feel the government's policy of allotment was a joke?
(a) Most of the Native Americans left reservation land.
(b) The Native Americans were never allotted 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. Comparing the size of her ignorance to the length of the sky, Marie attempts to convey that:

2. June is like Marie in that:

3. Why does Albertine think King and Lipsha don't get along?

4. What does Leopolda's big key open?

5. June Kashpaw wanders the streets of Wiliiston, North Dakota because:

(see the answer key)

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