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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who does Little Chief begin training with?
(a) Rainbow.
(b) Bear Heart.
(c) Black Eagle.
(d) The Chief.
2. What does Blue Bird's mother-in-law think Blue Bird's cousin can help her do?
(a) Care for the newborn baby.
(b) Get over Star Elk.
(c) Find a name for the newborn baby.
(d) Escape into the wilderness.
3. What does Star Elk spend his time doing instead of hunting for food?
(a) He sleeps soundly.
(b) Looking for a new wife.
(c) Being jealous of the attention Blue Bird receives from other men.
(d) Begging from people in the camp.
4. What do the people know about Blue Bird despite what is being said about her?
(a) She is possessed by a demon.
(b) The kind of person she is.
(c) She can tell the future.
(d) She is stronger than most of the men of the tribe.
5. What does Gloku take every opportunity to do to Blue Bird in Chapter 6?
(a) Tell her she is no good.
(b) Make fun of the way she speaks.
(c) Introduce her to the new people at the camp.
(d) Criticize the way she raises her daughter.
6. What causes Blue Bird to worry Waterlily is going to die in Chapter 3?
(a) The words spoken to her by her grandmother.
(b) A sign from God.
(c) Her husband is trying to kill both of them.
(d) Her weakening condition.
7. 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) The pile of prayers.
(d) To the shaman of the tribe.
8. 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.
9. Who does Blue Bird's sister-in-laws' loyalty belong to ultimately?
(a) Rainbow.
(b) The chief of the tribe.
(c) Blue Bird.
(d) Waterlily.
10. What are Dakota women taught is important from early childhood?
(a) Pleasing their husband with cooking.
(b) Prayer to God.
(c) Keeping a night watch.
(d) Living an honorable life.
11. What does Waterlily love to hear her brother talk about in Chapter 9?
(a) Himself.
(b) Rainbow.
(c) His first buffalo kill.
(d) Her mother.
12. What was Blue Bird's grandmother worried Star Elk would do to Blue Bird?
(a) Physically abuse her.
(b) Take her away never to return.
(c) Disgrace her by not honoring his commitment to her.
(d) Kill her while on their honeymoon.
13. What surprise does Rainbow have for Blue Bird in Chapter 5, concerning their trip?
(a) He is taking her out of the country.
(b) He is not going on the trip.
(c) His parents are chaperoning them.
(d) The secluded spot he has chosen to camp.
14. 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) With her cousin.
(d) In the midst of the growing water lilies.
15. What does Rainbow ask his parents to borrow in Chapter 4?
(a) Wood for a fire.
(b) A sturdy fishing line.
(c) Several hundred dollars.
(d) Their hunting tipi.
Short Answer Questions
1. What will Waterlily do at any festival in the future to let people know how her father felt about her?
2. Who is Little Chief's father?
3. What does Little Chief come to Blue Bird's tipi to do in Chapter 4?
4. What is all Blue Bird is good for, according to Star Elk?
5. What does Blue Bird take her children out to do as Waterlily gets older?
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