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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 doesn't seem to help Waterlily's illness at all in Chapter 3?
(a) Small sips of cool water given to her by her mother.
(b) The medicines given to her mother by a shaman.
(c) Several people singing to her.
(d) Any of the medicines the women of the tribe suggest her mother tried.

2. What does Gloku teach the children while they are in her care?
(a) To behave and respect each other.
(b) How to sing.
(c) To speak the English language.
(d) How to shoot a bow and arrow.

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

4. Why are Waterlily and her cousin allowed to participate in cutting down the Sacred Tree?
(a) They begged and pleaded.
(b) A bribe by Rainbow.
(c) They are the best behaved children in attendance.
(d) They are both beloved children.

5. How does Rainbow see Waterlily after he marries Blue Bird?
(a) Worthless because she is female.
(b) An outsider never to be included.
(c) As a slave at his beck and call.
(d) As his own child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this book, "Waterlily", tell the reader about the Dakota women?

2. What does Waterlily find outside the tipi that she begins to eat in Chapter 8?

3. In Chapter 6, why has the size of the camp circle doubled once they stop for the winter?

4. How long is the vow of fellowship taken by Dakota men to last for?

5. What is Blue Bird finding it hard to do when she returns to her camp in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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