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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Gloku decide to take the children to learn to pray?
(a) To the chapel at Santa Anna.
(b) The waterfall in the river.
(c) To the shaman of the tribe.
(d) The pile of prayers.

2. What state does Gloku find Waterlily in when she returns to her tipi in Chapter 8?
(a) She is extremely hyper.
(b) She is lying on the floor of the tipi very still.
(c) A hallucinogenic trance.
(d) She has gone insane.

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

4. Where does Blue Bird spend the night after Waterlily is born?
(a) In a hammock by the river.
(b) In her husband's bed.
(c) In the midst of the growing water lilies.
(d) With her cousin.

5. What happens to Blue Bird's grandmother while she is gathering wood in the summer?
(a) She finds an amulet buried in the ground.
(b) She is bitten by a spider.
(c) She is kidnapped by a warring tribe.
(d) She is killed when a tree falls on her.

6. What does Blue Bird believe is the significance of the unseen voice she hears after praying for her daughter in Chapter 3?
(a) Her husband is eavesdropping on her.
(b) She has developed a high fever and is hallucinating.
(c) Her prayers will be answered.
(d) She believes it a sign to run from the camp immediately.

7. What does Blue Bird take her children out to do as Waterlily gets older?
(a) Spy on Rainbow.
(b) Tell them stories and play games with them.
(c) Teach them her mystic ways.
(d) Hunt and gather food for the camp.

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

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

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

11. What does Blue Bird's mother-in-law think Blue Bird's cousin can help her do?
(a) Care for the newborn baby.
(b) Escape into the wilderness.
(c) Find a name for the newborn baby.
(d) Get over Star Elk.

12. Who taught Waterlily to take pride in Little Chief's accomplishments?
(a) Gloku.
(b) Blue Bird.
(c) Rainbow.
(d) No one.

13. What was given to Blue Bird and her grandmother when they join the camp circle in Chapter 2?
(a) Several diseases including small pox.
(b) Everything they needed to live there, including a tipi.
(c) A bodyguard to assure their safety.
(d) The rules of the camp circle.

14. What does Blue Bird's grandmother spend her days doing once they return to their family's camp circle?
(a) Talking to the chief.
(b) Sewing clothes for Waterlily.
(c) Going from tipi to tipi to visit old friends.
(d) Yelling at Blue Bird.

15. What does Rainbow find in the bushes when he investigates in Chapter 9?
(a) A bag of gold.
(b) A dead Indian.
(c) A rabid coyote.
(d) Waterlily and Little Chief.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Dakotas take people into their family, what do they become?

3. What is all Blue Bird is good for, according to Star Elk?

4. Why does the camp say they are making fun of Star Elk in Chapter 3?

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

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