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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the significance of the ghostkeeping to Gloku?
(a) The final way her family could honor her.
(b) A complete disrespect to her name.
(c) A way to dispose of her body.
(d) An unfunny joke.

2. What does Sacred Horse begin to see when they start spending time with Red Leaf's family?
(a) He does not love Waterlily.
(b) The real Waterlily.
(c) That Waterlily is in love with Red Leaf.
(d) A way to profit from his marriage.

3. What does Waterlily vow to do regarding sneaking away in Chapter 11?
(a) To take Little Chief with her next time.
(b) To never sneak away again.
(c) To do it again as soon as possible.
(d) To never tell anyone about it.

4. What follows the singing in the celebration in Chapter 11?
(a) Nothing- that is the end of the celebration.
(b) Fasting and weeping.
(c) More singing.
(d) Hunting and feasting.

5. What does the Dakota term Kola refer to?
(a) Someone who is more than a friend but not a blood relative.
(b) A great soft dink they have invented.
(c) A holy man.
(d) A shadow hunter.

6. Why is Waterlily not interested in remarrying in Chapter 17?
(a) She despises marriage.
(b) She wants to travel the world.
(c) She believes Sacred Horse is alive.
(d) She is overwhelmed by grief for Sacred Horse.

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

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

9. What does Waterlily require before she will agree to marry Lowanla?
(a) Two years to grieve for Sacred Horse.
(b) Nothing; she will never remarry.
(c) To know that Lowanla is not marrying her only out of obligation.
(d) A sum of money.

10. Who comes to tell stories while Waterlily is at Red Leaf's family's tipi in Chapter 15?
(a) Gloku's spirit.
(b) Star Elk.
(c) Yankton.
(d) Black Eagle.

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

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

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

14. How many wives does Sacred Horse's father have?
(a) None; he is a horse.
(b) One.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Three.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dies during Gloku's ghostkeeping ceremony?

2. What has Lowanla come to do in Chapter 17?

3. How do Waterlily and Little Bear find Little Bear's mother, Echo, in Chapter 16?

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

5. What makes Waterlily feel guilty about the way her marriage to Sacred Horse started?

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