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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy who Waterlily's cousin supposedly agreed to marry realize in Chapter 12?
(a) He must leave the tribe immediately.
(b) He is in love with Waterlily.
(c) He has mistaken her for someone else.
(d) His parents have disowned him.

2. What celebration is going on when Rainbow and family arrive at the far off camp circle in Chapter 10?
(a) A sun dance celebration.
(b) A thanksgiving feast.
(c) A sacrifice to the Gods.
(d) A rain dance celebration.

3. What does the young boy promise in sacrifice to the spirit during the dance?
(a) One hundred pieces of flesh.
(b) A buffalo.
(c) His soul.
(d) The life of his sister.

4. How do Sacred Horse and Waterlily walk home after the storytelling in Chapter 15?
(a) Stumbling because they are drunk.
(b) Holding Hands.
(c) The long way.
(d) They run the whole way.

5. What do the two women want from Black Eagle and his family in exchange for the two horses in Chapter 13?
(a) Black Eagle's servitude.
(b) A new tipi.
(c) Waterlily to marry their son.
(d) Two cows.

6. Why has Good Hunter destroyed most of the camp circle in Chapter 16?
(a) He has turned traitor.
(b) He has gone mad.
(c) To try and get rid of the smallpox.
(d) As a sacrifice.

7. Who has Ohiya taken a vow of fellowship with?
(a) Waterlily.
(b) Red Leaf.
(c) Star Elk.
(d) Sacred Horse.

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

9. What does Waterlily spend time doing when she returns to her own camp circle in Chapter 17?
(a) Denouncing marriage to all who will listen.
(b) Getting out of doing chores.
(c) Catching up with her cousins and visiting her grandfather.
(d) Weeping for Sacred Horse.

10. How do Sacred Horse's mothers seem to get along?
(a) They do not speak.
(b) They get along quite well.
(c) They bicker all day.
(d) They do not know each other.

11. Who does Lowanla ask Waterlily if she was in Chapter 17?
(a) The girl he saw riding across the plains.
(b) The girl at the Sun Dance.
(c) The girl in all the rumors he had heard.
(d) The ghost of his mother.

12. What does finding her social parents do for Waterlily?
(a) Put more of a burden on her.
(b) Ease her homesickness.
(c) Make her insane.
(d) Free her from a loveless marriage.

13. What do Waterlily and Little Bear fear has happened to Little Bear's father?
(a) He has run off with another woman.
(b) He has gone insane.
(c) He has turned traitor.
(d) He has been killed while out hunting.

14. Who does Rainbow go to visit in a far off camp circle in Chapter 10?
(a) An ancient healer.
(b) His brother Star Elk.
(c) His friend Palani.
(d) His great grandfather.

15. Who is the leader of Sacred Horse's camp circle?
(a) Sacred Horse.
(b) Red Leaf.
(c) Waterlily.
(d) Good Hunter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Waterlily adjusting to at the start of Chapter 14?

2. What selfless act did Gloku do for Waterlily?

3. What does the family in the story do instead of avenging their son's death in Chapter 15?

4. Why are Waterlily and Sacred Horse having trouble communicating in Chapter 15?

5. Why is Waterlily not interested in remarrying in Chapter 17?

(see the answer keys)

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