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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 tell Waterlily about when they return to their camp circle in Chapter 12?
(a) How disappointed her father is because she snuck away.
(b) How to be courted by a boy.
(c) How to cook for the family.
(d) How to make clothes from buffalo hide.

2. What does Waterlily notice while watching the singers in the celebration in Chapter 10?
(a) A boy with exceptional singing talent for his age.
(b) Her own rapid heartbeat.
(c) Two of the singers are not actually signing.
(d) The tumultuous cloud formations in the sky.

3. How long is the vow of fellowship taken by Dakota men to last for?
(a) For life.
(b) One full moon cycle.
(c) Twelve years.
(d) A week and a half.

4. What follows the singing in the celebration in Chapter 11?
(a) Fasting and weeping.
(b) Nothing- that is the end of the celebration.
(c) Hunting and feasting.
(d) More singing.

5. How do Waterlily and Little Bear find Little Bear's mother, Echo, in Chapter 16?
(a) They don't because she has disappeared.
(b) Tied to a stake.
(c) Dead.
(d) Scalped and barely alive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the significance of the ghostkeeping to Gloku?

2. What happens while Waterlily goes after Little Bear who is collecting water in Chapter 16?

3. What disease does Sacred Horse and his immediate family have at the start of Chapter 16?

4. What has shamed the girl Waterlily and Blue Bird learn about in Chapter 12?

5. How does Rainbow's best friend refer to Gloku?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the story that Yankton tells while Sacred Horse and Waterlily are at the tipi of Red Leaf's parents.

2. Why does Lowanla ask if Waterlily was the girl who offered him water at the Sun Dance, and how does Waterlily respond?

3. Who does Waterlily marry in Chapter 13, how does she know him, and how does he treat her?

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

5. How does meeting Red Leaf's parents affect Waterlily's relationship with her husband?

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

7. What is a ghostkeeping, and why does Gloku's family decide to have one when she dies?

8. In Chapter 14, what does Waterlily learn about her grandfather, and how does she feel about this news?

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

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

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