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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Thirteen through Fifteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Dakotas take people into their family, what do they become?
(a) The family's slave.
(b) Outcasts from the rest of the Dakota families.
(c) Marked targets for other tribes.
(d) Part of that family for life.

2. What is Waterlily starting to understand as she grows into an adult?
(a) How to cook properly.
(b) The burden she has put on her mother.
(c) The significance of Dakota traditions and her place in them.
(d) Her role as a slave to the men of the tribe.

3. Who is Little Chief's father?
(a) Gloku is unsure who his father is.
(b) Black Eagle.
(c) His father is Rainbow.
(d) His father is the Big Chief.

4. What does Waterlily do as soon as the ghostkeeping is over in Chapter 13?
(a) Leave the camp circle with her new husband's two mothers.
(b) Try to commit suicide.
(c) Weep for days.
(d) Run and hide in the woods.

5. In Chapter 8, what is six-year-old Waterlily left to do while her grandmother goes out for the day?
(a) Hunt that night's dinner.
(b) Chop the firewood for the night.
(c) Care for her blind grandfather.
(d) Clean the tipi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wants to give Waterlily a horse in Chapter 4?

2. What does finding her social parents do for Waterlily?

3. Why are Waterlily and Sacred Horse having trouble communicating in Chapter 15?

4. What does Gloku take every opportunity to do to Blue Bird in Chapter 6?

5. How does Rainbow see Waterlily after he marries Blue Bird?

(see the answer key)

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