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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the people know about Blue Bird despite what is being said about her?

3. What is Waterlily starting to understand as she grows into an adult?

4. Who comes to take Blue Bird and her grandmother back to their people?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Blue Bird do when her child becomes sick in Chapter 3?

2. What does Little Chief do as he grows older in Chapter 7?

3. How did Blue Bird's grandmother feel when she learned that Blue Bird had agreed to marry Star Elk?

4. How does Gloku and the rest of the camp circle feel about Rainbow's marriage to Blue Bird?

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

6. How does Blue Bird's grandmother die, and what happens during the burial tradition?

7. How does Little Chief join the war party, and how does he help?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What relationship does Waterlily's camp circle have with neighboring camp circles and other local tribes of Native Americans?

Essay Topic 2

How does the third person point-of-view enhance or inhibit the story? How would the novel be different if a different point of view were used?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the characters Waterlily and Blue Bird.

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