"The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog"

When Long Arrow was young, he was without the sense of _______.

• smell

• sight

• touch

• hearing

Long Arrow lost his sister when his sister was ________.

• killed by some marauding Indians.

• sacrificed to the gods.

• adopted by another family.

• married to the chief.

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Good running threatens his wife because his wife ________.

• had been hiding her possessions from him.

• didn't want to adopt Long Arrow.

• had insulted him in front of the council.

• she is unable to bear children.

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On his journey, Long Arrow meets a tall, fierce man who is the spirit of the lake. The man likes Long Arrow because Long Arrow ________.

• is not afraid.

• is a member of the Blackfoot tribe.

• is humble.

• is a skilled archer.

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Long Arrow gets to the great grandfather's lodge by ______.

• praying to the four directions.

• swimming to the bottom of a lake.

• flying on the back of an eagle.

• paddling his canoe for 14 days.

Long Arrow is allowed to ask the grandfather for a gift because he _______.

• conquered the lake spirit.

• knew the words of the Elk Dog song.

• saw the grandfather's feet.

• spares the grandfather's life.

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Wearing the black medicine robe will allow Long Arrow to _____.

• see the spirit being.

• transform himself into the shapes of animals.

• prophecy of the future.

• catch Elk Dogs.

When Long Arrow returns to the village, the people ________.

• hide from him.

• weep for joy.

• attempt to stone him.

• make him the new chief.

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This is actually a story of how ______.

• humans can contact the gods.

• how the Blackfeet acquired horses.

• how the earth was created.

• how evil was overcome

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At the end of the story, the people return to the Great Mystery Lake and discover that the lake contains ______.

• spirit people.

• Elk Dogs.

• a tipi.

• fish.

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