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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Four through Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Star Elk spend his time doing instead of hunting for food?
(a) He sleeps soundly.
(b) Looking for a new wife.
(c) Begging from people in the camp.
(d) Being jealous of the attention Blue Bird receives from other men.

2. What happens after Blue Bird and her grandmother wander alone for a few days in Chapter 2?
(a) They find a camp circle that welcomes them in.
(b) They are haunted by several ghosts.
(c) They learn to hunt and fish.
(d) They come to a town where they find a hotel.

3. How does Rainbow see Waterlily after he marries Blue Bird?
(a) As his own child.
(b) As a slave at his beck and call.
(c) An outsider never to be included.
(d) Worthless because she is female.

4. When Dakotas take people into their family, what do they become?
(a) Marked targets for other tribes.
(b) Outcasts from the rest of the Dakota families.
(c) The family's slave.
(d) Part of that family for life.

5. What does Little Chief tell Gloku he sees on top of a hill in Box Butte?
(a) He sees a ghost.
(b) He sees an attacking army.
(c) He sees the spirit of his parents.
(d) He sees a giant on the hill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What doesn't seem to help Waterlily's illness at all in Chapter 3?

2. What was given to Blue Bird and her grandmother when they join the camp circle in Chapter 2?

3. In the story that Black Eagle's family hears in Chapter 6, what did the buffalo do when the tribe was starving?

4. What happens to Blue Bird's grandmother while she is gathering wood in the summer?

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

(see the answer key)

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