The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush

This story is most like a...

• play
• biography
• science fiction
• folktale

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True or False - Little Gopher was a great athlete.

• True
• False

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What does this story try to explain?

• How Native Americans learned to paint
• How to make paints and brushes
• How the brilliant red, orange, and yellow flowers came to be
• How to be an artist

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What did Little Gopher see during his Dream-Vision?

• A man with brushes and paint and a woman with an animal skin.
• A man with a bow and arrow and a young buffalo.
• He didn't see anything in his Dream-Vision.
• None of the above.

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What was Young Gopher going to paint so that the tribe could remember? 

• Acts of kindness
• Deeds of warriors
• Nature
• None of the above

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What did Little Gopher do once he returned from his journey?

• He began training to be a warrior.
• He became a shaman.
• He began training to be a great hunter.
• He began to make paints and brushes.

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Little Gopher painted...

• pictures of old wise people in his tribe
• pictures of the village
• himself
• great hunts and great deeds of his people

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True or False - At one time, Little Gopher longed to be a warrior.

• True
• False

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What did Little Gopher long to bring to his people?

• The colors of the sunset
• The greatest painting of a great battle
• The picture of his Dream-Vision
• None of the above

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What did Little Gopher use to bring the colors of the sunset to his people?

• The brushes he found at the top of the hill.
• Brushes he made from berries he found at the top of the hill.
• He never found a way to bring the colors to his people.
• None of the above.

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