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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 the main gift for the ghostkeeping.
(b) Black Eagle won them in a card game.
(c) They are to carry the coffin.
(d) They are to be sacrificed to God.

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

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

4. What happens while Waterlily goes after Little Bear who is collecting water in Chapter 16?
(a) She is bitten by a snake.
(b) She loses her way.
(c) She has a vision of Gloku.
(d) The group is attacked.

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

6. 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) Waterlily to marry their son.
(c) Two cows.
(d) Black Eagle's servitude.

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

8. Who dies during Gloku's ghostkeeping ceremony?
(a) The whole tribe.
(b) Rainbow.
(c) No one.
(d) Red Leaf.

9. Why are Waterlily and Sacred Horse having trouble communicating in Chapter 15?
(a) They speak different languages.
(b) Waterlily cannot speak to horses.
(c) Sacred Horse is deaf and mute.
(d) Waterlily is extremely shy around Sacred Horse.

10. Why are Waterlily and her cousin allowed to participate in cutting down the Sacred Tree?
(a) They are both beloved children.
(b) They are the best behaved children in attendance.
(c) They begged and pleaded.
(d) A bribe by Rainbow.

11. What are Black Eagle and his family trying to find before the ghostkeeping in Chapter 13?
(a) Somewhere else to live.
(b) Gloku's money.
(c) A singer for the ceremony.
(d) Replacement horses.

12. What is the camp circle left with for the rest of the winter in Chapter 16?
(a) A rough shelter.
(b) A large amount of food.
(c) A new wagon.
(d) Nothing at all.

13. 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 break off into small groups.
(d) They gather the sick and drown them.

14. What has happened to Little Chief while Waterlily has been away?
(a) He has gotten married.
(b) He has fallen ill.
(c) He has been killed.
(d) He has become Big Chief.

15. What happens to the two horses before the ghostkeeping?
(a) They die.
(b) They each break a leg.
(c) They are stolen one night.
(d) They ingest poisonous mushrooms.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the war party Waterlily is to travel with headed?

2. What type of horses does Black Eagle have at the start of Chapter 13?

3. What is Sacred Horse and his group told to wait for from Good Hunter?

4. What does the Buffalo ceremony mark in Waterlily's life?

5. What was the significance of the ghostkeeping to Gloku?

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