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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the significance of the two horses Black Eagle has for the ghostkeeping in Chapter 13?
(a) They are to carry the coffin.
(b) They are the main gift for the ghostkeeping.
(c) Black Eagle won them in a card game.
(d) They are to be sacrificed to God.

2. In Chapter 17, why can't Waterlily tell Lowanla the truth about their first meeting?
(a) Sacred Horse's family would disapprove.
(b) It would hurt him to learn the truth.
(c) She should not have been so bold as to bring him water during the Sun Dance.
(d) She does not remember it at all.

3. What would Rainbow and his best friend be willing to do for each other?
(a) Denounce God.
(b) Die for each other.
(c) Kill the chief.
(d) Leave the tribe.

4. What happens to Sacred Horse at the start of Chapter 16?
(a) He is severely beaten.
(b) He dies from the disease killing the tribe.
(c) He is made chief.
(d) He is killed by an attacker's arrow.

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

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

7. What had Waterlily hoped the first time she saw Lowanla?
(a) She would never see him again.
(b) That Sacred Horse would kill him.
(c) She would one day marry him.
(d) That he would be quiet.

8. What does Waterlily's cousin have because a boy claims she agreed to marry him?
(a) A very angry family.
(b) An engagement party.
(c) A Virgin's Fire.
(d) A great feast.

9. What does Waterlily notice while watching the singers in the celebration in Chapter 10?
(a) The tumultuous cloud formations in the sky.
(b) A boy with exceptional singing talent for his age.
(c) Her own rapid heartbeat.
(d) Two of the singers are not actually signing.

10. What does Blue Bird tell Waterlily about when they return to their camp circle in Chapter 12?
(a) How to make clothes from buffalo hide.
(b) How disappointed her father is because she snuck away.
(c) How to be courted by a boy.
(d) How to cook for the family.

11. How do Waterlily and Little Bear find Little Bear's mother, Echo, in Chapter 16?
(a) They don't because she has disappeared.
(b) Scalped and barely alive.
(c) Tied to a stake.
(d) Dead.

12. How does Rainbow's best friend refer to Gloku?
(a) He refuses to speak to her.
(b) Aunt Gloku.
(c) As mother.
(d) Her grace.

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

14. Who greets Waterlily when she returns home in Chapter 17?
(a) Star Elk.
(b) Her whole family except Little Chief.
(c) Red Leaf and his children.
(d) No one; her home is gone.

15. What does Sacred Horse's friend suggest he do about the problems with Waterlily in Chapter 15?
(a) Kill her.
(b) Divorce her.
(c) Teach her his language.
(d) Move back among her people.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What has shamed the girl Waterlily and Blue Bird learn about in Chapter 12?

3. Why are Waterlily and her cousin allowed to participate in cutting down the Sacred Tree?

4. Who does Lowanla ask Waterlily if she was in Chapter 17?

5. What does the word Mitawa mean in Dakota?

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