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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are Dakota women taught is important from early childhood?
(a) Prayer to God.
(b) Keeping a night watch.
(c) Pleasing their husband with cooking.
(d) Living an honorable life.

3. What was Blue Bird's grandmother worried Star Elk would do to Blue Bird?
(a) Disgrace her by not honoring his commitment to her.
(b) Take her away never to return.
(c) Physically abuse her.
(d) Kill her while on their honeymoon.

4. Who comes to take Blue Bird and her grandmother back to their people?
(a) Her estranged husband, Star Elk.
(b) The spirit of her father.
(c) The chief of her tribe.
(d) Blue Bird's cousin, Black Eagle.

5. What two characteristics define the Dakota tribe?
(a) They are cold and ruthless.
(b) They are devoted and loyal.
(c) They are nomadic and wild.
(d) They are lazy and shiftless.

6. What does Woyaka believe the buffalo are to the Dakota?
(a) They are brothers.
(b) A pest to be exterminated.
(c) The sign of the devil.
(d) Their lords and masters.

7. What happens to Blue Bir'ds newborn baby when Waterlily leaves his side in Chapter 7?
(a) He is kidnapped.
(b) He awakes crying and hungry.
(c) A snake crawls into the tipi and coils around the baby.
(d) He begins to speak in tongues.

8. What is the name of Blue Bird's third child?
(a) Bird Song.
(b) Hunka.
(c) Smiling One.
(d) White Horse.

9. What does Star Elk refuse to do in Chapter 3 out of anger towards Blue Bird?
(a) Speak to her for two weeks.
(b) To go and see his newborn baby.
(c) Feed her.
(d) Share his peace pipe with her.

10. What does Blue Bird do immediately after giving birth?
(a) Say a prayer of thankfulness.
(b) Runs to find Star Elk.
(c) Wraps the baby up and changes clothes.
(d) Drown the baby in the river.

11. How does Waterlily feel about the man Little Chief is becoming in Chapter 9?
(a) She is very jealous of the attention he receives.
(b) She is very proud of him.
(c) She is highly disappointed.
(d) She really does not care.

12. How did the people in the camp justify the way Blue Bird and Star Elk went about marrying?
(a) The money they received from Star Elk.
(b) It was what Star Elk deserved for insulting the chief.
(c) Blue Bird did not have a mother to teach her any better.
(d) The couple was young and in love.

13. What name does Rainbow give Blue Bird's new baby?
(a) Ohiya.
(b) Water Horse.
(c) Stallion Breath.
(d) Sacajewea.

14. What does Little Chief want to do that he is refused because he is too young in Chapter 9?
(a) Smoke the peace pipe.
(b) Speak his mind.
(c) Hear the ghost stories being told.
(d) Join the war party.

15. What would a Dakota couple do in place of a traditional wedding ceremony?
(a) The couple would cut each other's hair off.
(b) The couple would hunt a buffalo together.
(c) They would perform a wedding dance.
(d) The couple would go on a wedding trip, then return and set up a tipi together.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Little Chief's father?

3. What does Star Elk spend his time doing instead of hunting for food?

4. Why does Star Elk leave the camp permanently in Chapter 3?

5. What are Rainbow's sisters preparing for Blue Bird's upcoming new baby at the start of Chapter 7?

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