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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. What does the Dakota term Kola refer to?
(a) A holy man.
(b) A shadow hunter.
(c) Someone who is more than a friend but not a blood relative.
(d) A great soft dink they have invented.

2. What is Blue Bird finding it hard to do when she returns to her camp in Chapter 4?
(a) Readjust to the camp.
(b) Start a fire for cooking.
(c) Walk.
(d) Hear people who are talking to her.

3. What does Blue Bird take her children out to do as Waterlily gets older?
(a) Hunt and gather food for the camp.
(b) Teach them her mystic ways.
(c) Tell them stories and play games with them.
(d) Spy on Rainbow.

4. What is Rainbow going to do to Waterlily because he is so glad she is alive?
(a) Write a song for her.
(b) Make her a hunka, or beloved child.
(c) Give her every desire she has.
(d) Teach her how to hunt buffalo.

5. Where is Blue Bird having friends and family call on her in Chapter 4?
(a) In her own tipi.
(b) She is not allowing friends and family call on her.
(c) The middle of the camp circle.
(d) At the spot where Waterlily was born.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Dakota women taught is important from early childhood?

2. In the story that Black Eagle's family hears in Chapter 6, what did the buffalo do when the tribe was starving?

3. What happens to Blue Bird's grandmother while she is gathering wood in the summer?

4. What is Blue Bird's response to Rainbow's marriage proposal?

5. Why is the young boy going to be part of the dance in Chapter 11?

(see the answer key)

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