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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. In Chapter 17, why can't Waterlily tell Lowanla the truth about their first meeting?
(a) She should not have been so bold as to bring him water during the Sun Dance.
(b) It would hurt him to learn the truth.
(c) Sacred Horse's family would disapprove.
(d) She does not remember it at all.

2. Why is Waterlily not interested in remarrying in Chapter 17?
(a) She wants to travel the world.
(b) She is overwhelmed by grief for Sacred Horse.
(c) She despises marriage.
(d) She believes Sacred Horse is alive.

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

4. What does the young boy promise in sacrifice to the spirit during the dance?
(a) A buffalo.
(b) The life of his sister.
(c) His soul.
(d) One hundred pieces of flesh.

5. What does Waterlily do as soon as the ghostkeeping is over in Chapter 13?
(a) Leave the camp circle with her new husband's two mothers.
(b) Weep for days.
(c) Run and hide in the woods.
(d) Try to commit suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the vow of fellowship taken by Dakota men to last for?

2. Why are Waterlily and her cousin allowed to participate in cutting down the Sacred Tree?

3. What makes Waterlily feel guilty about the way her marriage to Sacred Horse started?

4. What does the Dakota term Kola refer to?

5. What type of horses does Black Eagle have at the start of Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the two American horses Black Eagle had been saving for Gloku's ghostkeeping, and what opportunity arises to rectify the issue?

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

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

4. Retrospectively, how does Waterlily feel about her marriage to Sacred Horse, and what vow does she make to herself?

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

6. What happens that causes Blue Bird to talk to Waterlily about the proper ways to be courted by a young man, and why does Blue bird feel this is so important?

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

8. When everyone in the camp circle starts getting sick and dying what does Good Hunter tell Sacred Horse to do, and why?

9. Who gets sick in Chapter 16, with what illness, and what happens while the rest of the family awaits word from the camp circle?

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

(see the answer keys)

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