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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kills Waterlily at the end of Chapter 17?
(a) Little Chief.
(b) Lowanla.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Nothing.

3. Why is Waterlily happy Red Leaf's family is in the camp circle?
(a) She has new people to sing with her.
(b) She is no longer the new person in the camp circle.
(c) She can be herself around them because they are like her family.
(d) Red Leaf's mother is a great cook.

4. What happens at the same time Waterlily's grandfather dies?
(a) Waterlily dies also.
(b) Black Eagle dies as well.
(c) A buffalo enters the camp circle.
(d) Waterlily gives birth to a son.

5. What has Lowanla come to do in Chapter 17?
(a) Find food for his people who are starving.
(b) Spread word of an attack that is coming.
(c) Murder Waterlily.
(d) Raise Sacred Horse's child.

6. What does the Buffalo ceremony mark in Waterlily's life?
(a) Her decision to leave the camp circle.
(b) Her marriage.
(c) The change from childhood to adolescence.
(d) Her first buffalo kill.

7. What does Waterlily discover in Chapter 17?
(a) She loves Red Leaf.
(b) She has the smallpox.
(c) An abandoned mine shaft.
(d) She is pregnant with Sacred Horse's child.

8. What did Gloku teach Waterlily to be?
(a) A proficient seamstress.
(b) An excellent cook.
(c) A shape shifter.
(d) A respectable Dakota woman.

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

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

11. Who is Red Leaf?
(a) A dying man Waterlily finds in the woods.
(b) A very close friend of Waterlily's brother, Ohiya.
(c) A journeyman hunter.
(d) Waterlily's new husband.

12. Why does Waterlily show no emotion when meeting her future husband in Chapter 17?
(a) She cannot stand the man.
(b) She plans to run away as soon as possible.
(c) She is still grieving for Sacred Horse.
(d) She believes he is a spy.

13. How long can a Dakota ghostkeeping last?
(a) Three hours.
(b) One whole day.
(c) Months or even years.
(d) From dusk until dawn.

14. Who did Ohiya meet when his father visited Palani years ago?
(a) His maker.
(b) A holy man that guided his life.
(c) His future wife.
(d) His friend Red Leaf.

15. Why is the young boy going to be part of the dance in Chapter 11?
(a) He has prayed for his dying father.
(b) His mother begged the chief to let him do it.
(c) He can out dance everyone in the tribe.
(d) His father is chief of the tribe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Sacred Horse and Waterlily walk home after the storytelling in Chapter 15?

2. What is the camp circle left with for the rest of the winter in Chapter 16?

3. What does the Dakota term Kola refer to?

4. Who greets Waterlily when she returns home in Chapter 17?

5. What does Waterlily spend time doing when she returns to her own camp circle in Chapter 17?

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