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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who dies during Gloku's ghostkeeping ceremony?
(a) Red Leaf.
(b) Rainbow.
(c) No one.
(d) The whole tribe.

2. What does Rainbow throw at the noise in the bushes on the hunting trip in Chapter 9?
(a) A bone.
(b) A log.
(c) Several rocks.
(d) A cup of water.

3. Who greets Waterlily when she returns home in Chapter 17?
(a) No one; her home is gone.
(b) Her whole family except Little Chief.
(c) Star Elk.
(d) Red Leaf and his children.

4. What is given in the name of the dead to end the ghostkeeping?
(a) Buffalo meat.
(b) Gifts.
(c) Locks of hair.
(d) Tears.

5. In the Dakota tribe, who customarily helps parents raise their children?
(a) The God of the water.
(b) No one; the mother must do it on her own.
(c) The council of tribal elders.
(d) The grandmother and aunts of the child.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Waterlily and Little Bear find Little Bear's mother, Echo, in Chapter 16?

2. What is the name of Blue Bird's third child?

3. What does the young boy promise in sacrifice to the spirit during the dance?

4. What does Blue Bird take her children out to do as Waterlily gets older?

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

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