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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 has Lowanla come to do in Chapter 17?
(a) Spread word of an attack that is coming.
(b) Murder Waterlily.
(c) Raise Sacred Horse's child.
(d) Find food for his people who are starving.

2. Why are the men supposed to dance around the tree for several days in Chapter 11?
(a) It is a contest of stamina.
(b) So their prayers are answered.
(c) It is entertaining for the rest of the tribe.
(d) To show themselves to the women of the tribe.

3. How do the elders feel about Rainbow's decision to go visit his best friend?
(a) They are irate about it.
(b) They beg him not to go.
(c) They do not fault him for it.
(d) They could careless.

4. What has shamed the girl Waterlily and Blue Bird learn about in Chapter 12?
(a) She cannot swim across the river.
(b) Her parents are criminals.
(c) She had ruined a prayer ceremony.
(d) She had eloped and not been to see her husband's parents.

5. Who is Red Leaf?
(a) A dying man Waterlily finds in the woods.
(b) Waterlily's new husband.
(c) A journeyman hunter.
(d) A very close friend of Waterlily's brother, Ohiya.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Black Eagle and his family trying to find before the ghostkeeping in Chapter 13?

2. Why has Good Hunter destroyed most of the camp circle in Chapter 16?

3. How do Sacred Horse and Waterlily walk home after the storytelling in Chapter 15?

4. What does the word Mitawa mean in Dakota?

5. What does Waterlily realize after Sacred Horse dies in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of a Buffalo Ceremony, and why does Rainbow give one for Waterlily?

2. What does Waterlily learn about the camp circle when Sacred Horse's cousin finds her, Echo, and Little Bear in Chapter 16?

3. Why do women sneak water to their husbands and boyfriends during the Sun Dance, and how does Waterlily feel about this?

4. Why is Waterlily asked to wait on Lowanla, and how does she feel about this?

5. How do Waterlily and her cousin help with the second part of the Sun Dance ceremony, and why are they allowed this honor?

6. When Waterlily arrives at her camp circle, who does not greet her, and why?

7. Who is Red Leaf, and why is Waterlily happy to meet his parents in Chapter 15?

8. Why is it important that Rainbow is selected for the Kit Fox Society, and how does Palani react when he learns of this?

9. What happens at the same time Waterlily's son is born, and what does she name her son?

10. Why does Leaping Fawn have a Virgin's Fire, and what happens during the ceremony?

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