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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is portrayed by the dancers in the Buffalo Dance?
a successful hunt
buffalo, the horse, and the hunter
The Dakota and the Ojibway at war
Chanuka’s moccasins
- 2. Multiple Choice
In the story, Chanuka’s moccasins
are a gift to the tribe as a result of a successful hunt
were made from the hides stolen from another tribe
were a gift from Neosho
could have given away Chanuka's presence at the Buffalo Dance
- 3. Multiple Choice
In this story, which tribes are engaged in a feud.
Dakota
Chanuka
Neosho
Ojibway
Quechan
- 4. Multiple Choice
The resolution of a story is
the moment in which we find out the final explanation of any misunderstandings that have occurred
the part of the story that resolves the initial conflict
where the main characters and setting is introduced
the same as the rising action
- 5. Multiple Choice
Read the quote from the text and choose the correct answer:
"Canoe, weapons, the limp helpless body under its feet--all alike were objects of the huge beast's blind onslaught."
The term onslaught means:
large number
grasslike plants
from time to time
attack
- 6. Multiple Choice
Read the quote from the text and choose the correct answer:
"All up and down upon the grass was written the record of that encounter when the great ugly-temperd beast, wounded and furious, had turned upon the unwary hunter."
The term unwary means:
not cautious
cautious
attacked
attacker
- 7. Multiple Choice
Read the quote from the text and choose the correct answer:
"The older warriors still talked beside the campfire of the long wars which had raged intermittently and furiously between nation and nation for a hundreds years."
The term intermittently means:
angrily
continusouly
periodically
a very long time
- 8. Multiple Choice
In the story, a successful hunt
was celebrated by having a Buffalo Dance.
was the reason the tribes avoided the special stretch of lake and swamp between their domains.
had not happened in many years for either tribe.
was a sign of victory of war.
- 9. Multiple Choice
A simile is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
Which quote from the story best demonstrates a simile?
"The arm under his was undoubtedly broken; his whole body was bruised and torn with a dozen jagged gashes, while the hot fever of untended wounds was evidently running like fire throughout his whole being."
"Chanuka's eye glinted with a sudden spark."
"His wounds would give him pain for a long time still, and the scars would be with him throughout his life; but the iron strength of an Indian would not yield to weakness and fever for more than the briefest stretch of days."
"The wild rice was ripening along the edge of the marshes, the swamp amples were turning red, and the dry rustle of the wind in the poplars foretold the coming of the winter tempests"
- 10. Multiple Choice
Read the quote from the text and choose the correct answer:
"'...where the water grasses brushed softly along the birch-bark botton and between those tufts of green where rocks, brush and poplars or pines rose from the water here and there in a myriad of tiny green islands."
An ANTONYM for the term myriad means:
mirage
islands
large number
very few
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