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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are Red Dress and Ghost Horse still searching for one another?
(a) They are lovers but never came together as man and woman.
(b) They want to fight.
(c) They are lost on the earth plane.
(d) They are destined to have a child together.

2. What does Reverend Pyke have Red Dress translate?
(a) Sermons and other Christian writings into the Sioux tongue.
(b) The Declaration of Independence.
(c) The Louisiana Purchase.
(d) The Bible.

3. Whose hand is pressing on Charlene's chest?
(a) Her grandmother's.
(b) Harley's.
(c) Red Dress'.
(d) Pumpkin's.

4. What does Charlene request of Jeannette?
(a) To allow her to live with her.
(b) To leave the reservation.
(c) A change of homerooms.
(d) To teach her the Sioux ways.

5. What is Mercury doing to Charlene?
(a) She is killing her.
(b) She is preparing her for college.
(c) She is training her to be a shaman.
(d) She is doing everything possible to sabotage her schoolwork.

6. What are her son and niece doing?
(a) Playing.
(b) Making beaded necklaces.
(c) Dancing and singing.
(d) Skipping rocks on the water.

7. What does Red Dress bewitch the men to do?
(a) Sleep with her.
(b) Dance and sing.
(c) Kill one another.
(d) Hang themselves.

8. Why must Red Dress stay on the earth plane?
(a) She is still alive.
(b) She must wait for Ghost Horse who is still on the earth plane.
(c) She is too evil to go to the spirit plane.
(d) Ghost Horse is unable to loose her spirit as is required in the ceremony.

9. Why does Anna sew Dina's first traditional Sioux dress?
(a) Dina's mother is useless with a needle.
(b) Anna loves to sew.
(c) Dina does not want to sew.
(d) Dina's mother is not home to sew it.

10. On what is the Sioux nation subsisting?
(a) Buffalo meat.
(b) Food from the Red Cross.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Potatoes.

11. What do the boys and Charlene do?
(a) They catch Harley.
(b) They break into the high school.
(c) They trick Mercury.
(d) They have sex.

12. How does Anna's husband die?
(a) In a riding accident.
(b) Muscular dystrophy.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Pneumonia.

13. Why is Red Dress killed?
(a) She is friends with a white woman.
(b) She is caught in a trap.
(c) The Army invades her village.
(d) She spells one too many people.

14. What does Anna invite Jeannette to do?
(a) Leave the reservation.
(b) Go to a powwow with her.
(c) Marry her son.
(d) Live with her.

15. Why does Herod not allow Jeanette into the sweat lodge?
(a) She is on her menses.
(b) She is a stranger.
(c) He is in love with her.
(d) She is not Sioux.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whom does Dina dream?

2. How will Frank be trained?

3. What does Red Dress tell Calvin about Anna?

4. Who does Lydia adore?

5. To what bird do some compare Mercury?

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