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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 is given in the name of the dead to end the ghostkeeping?
2. Why is Waterlily not interested in remarrying in Chapter 17?
3. What does Sacred Horse begin to see when they start spending time with Red Leaf's family?
4. What does Waterlily do out of love and respect for her grandmother's memory?
5. Why has Good Hunter destroyed most of the camp circle in Chapter 16?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Waterlily arrives at her camp circle, who does not greet her, and why?
2. Why does Leaping Fawn have a Virgin's Fire, and what happens during the ceremony?
3. What happens at the same time Waterlily's son is born, and what does she name her son?
4. Who does Waterlily marry in Chapter 13, how does she know him, and how does he treat her?
5. Describe the camp circle of Waterlily's new husband and new family in Chapter 14?
6. Who gets sick in Chapter 16, with what illness, and what happens while the rest of the family awaits word from the camp circle?
7. In Chapter 13, how does Waterlily feel about her marriage proposal, what does she decide, and why?
8. Who is Red Leaf, and why is Waterlily happy to meet his parents in Chapter 15?
9. How does meeting Red Leaf's parents affect Waterlily's relationship with her husband?
10. Retrospectively, how does Waterlily feel about her marriage to Sacred Horse, and what vow does she make to herself?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast Star Elk and Rainbow. How are their relationships with Blue Bird similar and different?
Essay Topic 2
How are the different symbols (the Hunka ceremony, the ghostkeeping, the Virgin's Fire, the Sun Dance) used throughout the novel to represent abstract concepts? Detail and explain how the symbols are used to describe certain abstract concepts and which concepts they describe.
Essay Topic 3
What is the importance of the author, Ella Cara Deloria, having a Sioux heritage, and how might that have affected her writing of "Waterlily"?
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