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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the word "Hao" mean in the Dakota language?
(a) It means life and spirit.
(b) Child of God.
(c) It is the word for rain.
(d) It is the word for approval and consent.

2. Who is Little Chief's father?
(a) Gloku is unsure who his father is.
(b) His father is Rainbow.
(c) Black Eagle.
(d) His father is the Big Chief.

3. Who do Gloku and her husband believe would be a good husband for Blue Bird?
(a) Little Chief.
(b) Gloku's cousin.
(c) No one; they believe she should stay single.
(d) Rainbow.

4. What is Waterlily learning to be proud of in Chapter 8?
(a) Her sheer wisdom.
(b) Her power and might.
(c) Her hunting prowess.
(d) Her family and their accomplishments.

5. Where does Gloku decide to take the children to learn to pray?
(a) To the chapel at Santa Anna.
(b) The pile of prayers.
(c) To the shaman of the tribe.
(d) The waterfall in the river.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Star Elk summon to be with them when he takes Blue Bird to his family?

3. When Dakotas take people into their family, what do they become?

4. What does Blue Bird take her children out to do as Waterlily gets older?

5. What are Rainbow's sisters preparing for Blue Bird's upcoming new baby at the start of Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Rainbow and the other men do in response to finding the dead Indian and why?

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

3. Why does Gloku visit Blue Bird, and what does Blue Bird learn about Gloku's family in Chapter 4?

4. Due to his anger at Blue Bird and the way the rest of the camp circle is treating him, what does Star Elk do?

5. What does Blue Bird learn soon after her child gets better in Chapter 3?

6. How is Little Chief honored when a dead Indian is found in the bushes during a hunting expedition?

7. In Chapter 7, how does Blue Bird's new family help her prepare for the baby she is expecting? How does Blue Bird feel about this, and why?

8. In Chapter 6, what does Gloku dream, and how does her dream come true?

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

10. Describe the place Rainbow takes Blue Bird for their honeymoon trip.

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