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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Blue Bird do immediately after giving birth?
(a) Wraps the baby up and changes clothes.
(b) Drown the baby in the river.
(c) Say a prayer of thankfulness.
(d) Runs to find Star Elk.

2. What does Blue Bird believe is the significance of the unseen voice she hears after praying for her daughter in Chapter 3?
(a) She has developed a high fever and is hallucinating.
(b) Her husband is eavesdropping on her.
(c) She believes it a sign to run from the camp immediately.
(d) Her prayers will be answered.

3. What does Rainbow hear while sitting around the campfire on the hunting trip in Chapter 9?
(a) An approaching storm.
(b) A bird calling.
(c) The war cries of another tribe.
(d) A ghost whispering.

4. In the story that Black Eagle's family hears in Chapter 6, what did the buffalo do when the tribe was starving?
(a) Stampede through a hunting party.
(b) Enter the camp and allow enough of them to be killed to avoid the tribe starving.
(c) Desert the plains and remain out of site until the winter was over.
(d) Die of starvation as well.

5. What does Gloku do with the children's rocks in Chapter 5?
(a) Takes them away.
(b) Paints them.
(c) Carves them into chess pieces.
(d) Stows them away in a bag.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Star Elk treat Blue Bird badly?

2. What is Blue Bird finding it hard to do when she returns to her camp in Chapter 4?

3. What happens to Waterlily after Blue Bird prays for her and returns to camp in Chapter 3?

4. What is all Blue Bird is good for, according to Star Elk?

5. What name does Rainbow give Blue Bird's new baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Blue Bird's marriage to Star Elk.

2. Due to his anger at Blue Bird and the way the rest of the camp circle is treating him, what does Star Elk do?

3. What happens when Gloku takes Waterlily and Little Chief to the pile of prayers at Box Butte?

4. How does the camp circle feel about Star Elk's actions against Blue Bird, and what does Star Elk do as a result?

5. How did Blue Bird's grandmother feel when she learned that Blue Bird had agreed to marry Star Elk?

6. How does Waterlily feel when Little Chief kills his first buffalo, and why is it important?

7. What do Rainbow and the other men do in response to finding the dead Indian and why?

8. How does Star Elk act when Blue Bird decides to stay with her cousin for a few days after her child is born?

9. What happens to Waterlily when she is left to care for her blind grandfather at the age of six?

10. In Chapter 4, what does Rainbow tell his parents, and how do they feel about this and why?

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