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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 Waterlily love to hear her brother talk about in Chapter 9?
(a) Her mother.
(b) His first buffalo kill.
(c) Rainbow.
(d) Himself.

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

3. What is all Blue Bird is good for, according to Star Elk?
(a) Her beautiful sowing.
(b) To fetch water or fuel.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Her wonderful singing voice.

4. What does Star Elk refuse to do in Chapter 3 out of anger towards Blue Bird?
(a) Speak to her for two weeks.
(b) To go and see his newborn baby.
(c) Share his peace pipe with her.
(d) Feed her.

5. Why does Star Elk treat Blue Bird badly?
(a) She treats him horribly.
(b) He is in love with another woman.
(c) He believes she is possessed by a demon.
(d) He is jealous of the way other men look at her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Star Elk leave the camp permanently in Chapter 3?

2. What does Blue Bird's grandmother spend her days doing once they return to their family's camp circle?

3. What does Rainbow hear while sitting around the campfire on the hunting trip in Chapter 9?

4. What did Star Elk question about Blue Bird twice publicly?

5. What do Dakotas believe they are in relation to all things?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Blue Bird's grandmother die, and what happens during the burial tradition?

3. Who is Little Chief, and how does Blue Bird treat him?

4. How does Little Chief join the war party, and how does he help?

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

6. When Waterlily leaves Ohiya for a moment in Chapter 7, what happens and how is this rectified?

7. How does Gloku and the rest of the camp circle feel about Rainbow's marriage to Blue Bird?

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

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

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

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