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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can anyone question during the event Waterlily's cousin holds?
(a) The girls' honor.
(b) The validity of the engagement.
(c) Their importance to the tribe.
(d) Their faith in God.

2. What does Waterlily spend time doing when she returns to her own camp circle in Chapter 17?
(a) Getting out of doing chores.
(b) Denouncing marriage to all who will listen.
(c) Weeping for Sacred Horse.
(d) Catching up with her cousins and visiting her grandfather.

3. What is given in the name of the dead to end the ghostkeeping?
(a) Locks of hair.
(b) Tears.
(c) Gifts.
(d) Buffalo meat.

4. What do Waterlily and Little Bear fear has happened to Little Bear's father?
(a) He has been killed while out hunting.
(b) He has gone insane.
(c) He has turned traitor.
(d) He has run off with another woman.

5. What does the family decide to have instead of a burial when Gloku dies?
(a) A cremation.
(b) A feast in which all tribes are fed.
(c) A party to celebrate.
(d) A ghostkeeping.

6. Why has Good Hunter destroyed most of the camp circle in Chapter 16?
(a) To try and get rid of the smallpox.
(b) He has turned traitor.
(c) As a sacrifice.
(d) He has gone mad.

7. What does Waterlily discover in Chapter 17?
(a) She is pregnant with Sacred Horse's child.
(b) She has the smallpox.
(c) An abandoned mine shaft.
(d) She loves Red Leaf.

8. What kills Waterlily at the end of Chapter 17?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Little Chief.
(d) Lowanla.

9. Who comes to tell stories while Waterlily is at Red Leaf's family's tipi in Chapter 15?
(a) Star Elk.
(b) Black Eagle.
(c) Yankton.
(d) Gloku's spirit.

10. What type of horses does Black Eagle have at the start of Chapter 13?
(a) Shetland ponies.
(b) Winged horses.
(c) American horses.
(d) Chestnut mares.

11. What are Black Eagle and his family trying to find before the ghostkeeping in Chapter 13?
(a) A singer for the ceremony.
(b) Somewhere else to live.
(c) Replacement horses.
(d) Gloku's money.

12. Why is Waterlily happy Red Leaf's family is in the camp circle?
(a) She is no longer the new person in the camp circle.
(b) Red Leaf's mother is a great cook.
(c) She can be herself around them because they are like her family.
(d) She has new people to sing with her.

13. What makes Waterlily feel guilty about the way her marriage to Sacred Horse started?
(a) She cheated on him.
(b) She never cooked well for him.
(c) She never loved him.
(d) She was so shy at first.

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

15. What is Rainbow being considered for soon after the Buffalo Ceremony?
(a) The Kit Fox society.
(b) The shaman of the tribe.
(c) The chief of the tribe.
(d) The head of the hunting parties.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Waterlily sneak away to see during the dance in Chapter 11?

2. Who is Waterlily's cousin that is mentioned in Chapter 12?

3. What does the Buffalo ceremony mark in Waterlily's life?

4. What celebration is going on when Rainbow and family arrive at the far off camp circle in Chapter 10?

5. What does Waterlily's cousin have because a boy claims she agreed to marry him?

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