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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Good Hunter suggest to stop the disease spreading through the people in Chapter 15?
(a) They fast for fourteen days.
(b) They kill all the women and children.
(c) They gather the sick and drown them.
(d) They break off into small groups.

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

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

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

5. Why are the men supposed to dance around the tree for several days in Chapter 11?
(a) It is a contest of stamina.
(b) To show themselves to the women of the tribe.
(c) So their prayers are answered.
(d) It is entertaining for the rest of the tribe.

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

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

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

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

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 to cook for the family.
(c) How disappointed her father is because she snuck away.
(d) How to be courted by a boy.

11. What makes Waterlily feel guilty about the way her marriage to Sacred Horse started?
(a) She never loved him.
(b) She cheated on him.
(c) She was so shy at first.
(d) She never cooked well for him.

12. What selfless act did Gloku do for Waterlily?
(a) Went without eating to feed Waterlily.
(b) She raised her as her own.
(c) Sacrificed herself to God.
(d) Jumped in front of an attacker.

13. What makes Waterlily very happy in Chapter 17?
(a) An abundant crop of corn.
(b) Her marriage to Lowanla.
(c) A letter from Sacred Horse.
(d) The demise of their enemies.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Waterlily vow to do regarding sneaking away in Chapter 11?

2. Why does Waterlily show no emotion when meeting her future husband in Chapter 17?

3. Who comes to tell stories while Waterlily is at Red Leaf's family's tipi in Chapter 15?

4. What does Waterlily require before she will agree to marry Lowanla?

5. What does the family decide to have instead of a burial when Gloku dies?

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