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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 is Blue Bird finding it hard to do when she returns to her camp in Chapter 4?
(a) Readjust to the camp.
(b) Hear people who are talking to her.
(c) Walk.
(d) Start a fire for cooking.

2. In the story that Black Eagle's family hears in Chapter 6, what did the buffalo do when the tribe was starving?
(a) Enter the camp and allow enough of them to be killed to avoid the tribe starving.
(b) Desert the plains and remain out of site until the winter was over.
(c) Die of starvation as well.
(d) Stampede through a hunting party.

3. Where does the camp stop on the way to their winter location at the start of Chapter 5?
(a) The outskirts of Cheyenne.
(b) A deserted canyon.
(c) The peak of a mountain.
(d) Near Box Butte.

4. What does Rainbow find in the bushes when he investigates in Chapter 9?
(a) Waterlily and Little Chief.
(b) A rabid coyote.
(c) A dead Indian.
(d) A bag of gold.

5. What happens to Waterlily after Blue Bird prays for her and returns to camp in Chapter 3?
(a) She fades into a coma and dies.
(b) She is kidnapped by Star Elk.
(c) She begins to speak in tongues.
(d) She begins to get better.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gloku's dream tell her that she feels very uneasy about?

2. What state does Gloku find Waterlily in when she returns to her tipi in Chapter 8?

3. What does this book, "Waterlily", tell the reader about the Dakota women?

4. What does Rainbow give away in Waterlily's name to celebrate during the ceremony in Chapter 8?

5. What happened to Blue Bird at the age of fourteen while picking beans with her grandmother?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 2, how did Blue Bird come to live in this camp circle?

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

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

5. In Chapter 1, what does Blue Bird name her child, and why?

6. How does Little Chief join the war party, and how does he help?

7. How does Waterlily feel when Little Chief kills his first buffalo, and why is it important?

8. When Blue Bird's mother-in-law hears of the child's birth, what does she do, and what does she think in regards to her son?

9. What story does Woyaka tell Black Eagle's family?

10. How does the camp circle feel about Star Elk's actions against Blue Bird, and what does Star Elk do as a result?

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