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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 Gloku take every opportunity to do to Blue Bird in Chapter 6?
(a) Introduce her to the new people at the camp.
(b) Make fun of the way she speaks.
(c) Criticize the way she raises her daughter.
(d) Tell her she is no good.

2. What is Waterlily learning to be proud of in Chapter 8?
(a) Her power and might.
(b) Her sheer wisdom.
(c) Her hunting prowess.
(d) Her family and their accomplishments.

3. What happened to Blue Bird at the age of fourteen while picking beans with her grandmother?
(a) Her family was attacked and killed.
(b) She found a magic coin.
(c) She saw a shooting star.
(d) She had a vision of her future daughter.

4. What does Blue Bird realize about marrying Rainbow?
(a) Rainbow will never be home.
(b) Things will be different than her marriage to Star Elk.
(c) Rainbow will be a horrible father.
(d) She is not truly in love with him.

5. What is Blue Bird's response to Rainbow's marriage proposal?
(a) She laughs in Rainbow's face.
(b) She agrees to marry him.
(c) She runs to tell all of her friends.
(d) She begins to weep and wail.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the people in the camp justify the way Blue Bird and Star Elk went about marrying?

2. What does Blue Bird do immediately after giving birth?

3. What causes Blue Bird to worry Waterlily is going to die in Chapter 3?

4. What does Blue Bird make for Little Chief in Chapter 4?

5. What was given to Blue Bird and her grandmother when they join the camp circle in Chapter 2?

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

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

4. In Chapter 1, what does Blue Bird name her child, and why?

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

6. According to Chapter 2, how did Blue Bird come to live in this camp circle?

7. In Chapter 7, how does Blue Bird's new family help her prepare for the baby she is expecting? How does Blue Bird feel about this, and why?

8. What does Blue Bird learn soon after her child gets better in Chapter 3?

9. How is Little Chief honored when a dead Indian is found in the bushes during a hunting expedition?

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

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