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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Seven through Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Blue Bird at the age of fourteen while picking beans with her grandmother?
(a) She saw a shooting star.
(b) She had a vision of her future daughter.
(c) Her family was attacked and killed.
(d) She found a magic coin.

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

3. In Chapter 6, why has the size of the camp circle doubled once they stop for the winter?
(a) Some nomads were added on the trail.
(b) The women have all given birth to twins.
(c) Their hunters have returned to them.
(d) Another camp circle has joined them.

4. What is Little Chief given after one of his first training sessions?
(a) A tipi of his own.
(b) A bow and arrow.
(c) A slingshot.
(d) His first horse.

5. What does Little Chief accomplish when Waterlily is twelve years old?
(a) He writes his own song.
(b) He kills his first buffalo.
(c) He annoys her to death.
(d) He swims across the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gloku teach the children while they are in her care?

2. What causes Blue Bird to worry Waterlily is going to die in Chapter 3?

3. What does Waterlily love to hear her brother talk about in Chapter 9?

4. What does Blue Bird do immediately after giving birth?

5. What does Blue Bird's mother-in-law think Blue Bird's cousin can help her do?

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