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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why has Good Hunter destroyed most of the camp circle in Chapter 16?
(a) He has turned traitor.
(b) He has gone mad.
(c) As a sacrifice.
(d) To try and get rid of the smallpox.

4. 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.

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

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

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

8. Who does Rainbow go to visit in a far off camp circle in Chapter 10?
(a) His brother Star Elk.
(b) His friend Palani.
(c) His great grandfather.
(d) An ancient healer.

9. What does Waterlily do as soon as the ghostkeeping is over in Chapter 13?
(a) Leave the camp circle with her new husband's two mothers.
(b) Try to commit suicide.
(c) Weep for days.
(d) Run and hide in the woods.

10. Who does Waterlily stay with when she returns to Good Hunter's camp in Chapter 17?
(a) Rainbow.
(b) Black Eagle.
(c) Her social parents.
(d) Good Hunter.

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

12. How did Waterlily act when she saw Sacred Horse while getting water?
(a) She giggled with her friends.
(b) She carried his water for him.
(c) She showed no interest as her mother taught her to do.
(d) She ran and hid.

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

14. What disease does Sacred Horse and his immediate family have at the start of Chapter 16?
(a) Cancer.
(b) The Bubonic plague.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Malaria.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sacred Horse's friend suggest he do about the problems with Waterlily in Chapter 15?

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

3. What happens at the same time Waterlily's grandfather dies?

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

5. What does Waterlily do out of love and respect for her grandmother's memory?

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