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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Star Elk leave the camp permanently in Chapter 3?
(a) He is ashamed of his own behavior towards Blue Bird.
(b) He finds a better camp to live in.
(c) The chief orders him to leave immediately.
(d) He is killed by a buffalo.

3. What does Waterlily find outside the tipi that she begins to eat in Chapter 8?
(a) A basket of apples.
(b) A pemmican cake.
(c) A bushel of corn.
(d) A wild mushroom.

4. Who does Blue Bird's sister-in-laws' loyalty belong to ultimately?
(a) Waterlily.
(b) Rainbow.
(c) Blue Bird.
(d) The chief of the tribe.

5. In Chapter 8, what is six-year-old Waterlily left to do while her grandmother goes out for the day?
(a) Hunt that night's dinner.
(b) Chop the firewood for the night.
(c) Clean the tipi.
(d) Care for her blind grandfather.

6. 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) Their hunters have returned to them.
(c) The women have all given birth to twins.
(d) Another camp circle has joined them.

7. Why does Blue Bird name her daughter Waterlily?
(a) She could not think of a better name.
(b) She was born near water-lilies and her mother thinks she is as beautiful as the water-lilies.
(c) She was commanded to by the chief.
(d) It was her grandmother's name.

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

9. How does Blue Bird notice Rainbow is different from Star Elk?
(a) He speaks more eloquently.
(b) He is much more attractive than Star Elk.
(c) His work ethic is much better.
(d) He is more intelligent.

10. What does the word "Hao" mean in the Dakota language?
(a) Child of God.
(b) It is the word for rain.
(c) It means life and spirit.
(d) It is the word for approval and consent.

11. What is Blue Bird's response to Rainbow's marriage proposal?
(a) She begins to weep and wail.
(b) She laughs in Rainbow's face.
(c) She agrees to marry him.
(d) She runs to tell all of her friends.

12. In the story that Black Eagle's family hears in Chapter 6, what did the buffalo do when the tribe was starving?
(a) Stampede through a hunting party.
(b) Desert the plains and remain out of site until the winter was over.
(c) Die of starvation as well.
(d) Enter the camp and allow enough of them to be killed to avoid the tribe starving.

13. How many brothers were on the hunting trip with Blue Bird when she was a child?
(a) None; she is an only child.
(b) Two.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rainbow find in the bushes when he investigates in Chapter 9?

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

3. What did Star Elk question about Blue Bird twice publicly?

4. How did the people in the camp justify the way Blue Bird and Star Elk went about marrying?

5. What does Rainbow give away in Waterlily's name to celebrate during the ceremony in Chapter 8?

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