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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 causes Blue Bird to worry Waterlily is going to die in Chapter 3?
(a) The words spoken to her by her grandmother.
(b) A sign from God.
(c) Her weakening condition.
(d) Her husband is trying to kill both of them.

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

3. When Dakotas take people into their family, what do they become?
(a) Marked targets for other tribes.
(b) Outcasts from the rest of the Dakota families.
(c) The family's slave.
(d) Part of that family for life.

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

5. What will Waterlily do at any festival in the future to let people know how her father felt about her?
(a) Give a speech.
(b) Paint her face red.
(c) Be in charge of the festivities.
(d) Sing the song he wrote her.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story that Black Eagle's family hears in Chapter 6, what did the buffalo do when the tribe was starving?

2. What does Blue Bird take her children out to do as Waterlily gets older?

3. What is Rainbow going to do to Waterlily because he is so glad she is alive?

4. How does Rainbow see Waterlily after he marries Blue Bird?

5. Why does the camp say they are making fun of Star Elk in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Rainbow decide to make Waterlily a hunka, what does this mean, and how does Waterlily feel about it?

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

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

5. Why does Blue Bird find it hard to adjust to returning to her own camp circle?

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

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

8. In Chapter 6, what does Gloku dream, and how does her dream come true?

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

10. 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?

(see the answer keys)

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