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WorksheetsWashington Battlers: The Birchbark House
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 16mins
Who is the author of The Birchbark House?
Laura Williams
Pam Ryan
Louise Erdrich
Ingrid Law
What is the meaning of Omakayas's name?
Fast Rabbit
Little Frog
Brave Bear
Singing Bird
Omakayas's family lived on an island in which Great Lake?
Lake Superior
Lake Michigan
Lake Huron
Lake Ontario
Lake Erie
Which dog of Old Tallow's did not like Omakayas?
the black dog
the brown dog with the lopped-off tail
the small whitish dog
the big yellow dog
What tool does Omakayas's mother own that other women in the village are always borrowing?
scissors
comb
needle
knife
What does Omakayas come across and play with on her way home from Old Tallow?
a baby raccoon
a fawn
two bear cubs
an otter
What type of animal hide did Omakayas help to scrape and tan to make makazins?
moose
bear
deer
elk
What gift did Deydey give to Omakayas?
A hide scraper
A piece of indigo ribbon
Some calico cloth
A small knife
What causes Deydey's makazin to move and hop forward on its own?
A snake
A mouse
A crow
A rabbit
What was the name Omakayas gave to the injured crow she kept?
Neewo
Little Pinch
Andeg
Mikwam
How does Little/Big Pinch get into trouble?
He eats most of the chokecherries that are to be used for food during the winter.
He scares away Omakayas's pet crow.
He lets the crows eat the family's corn.
He takes Neewo out of his tikinagun.
What does the family go to harvest in the fall that grows across from their island in the great sloughs of Kakagon?
Corn
Beans
Sorghum
Rice
Who does Omakayas become such good friends with that they begin to call each other sister?
Angeline
Two Strike Girl
Twilight
Little Bee
What is Deydey's favorite meat?
beaver
whitefish
deer
moose
What does Angeline's friend Ten Snow give to Omakayas?
A leather sewing kit and bead packet.
A fashionable bandolier bag.
A coat made of various animal pelts.
Makazins with crimson beaded flowers on them.
What did Nokomis's grandfather tell her never to do when she was eight?
Run through the forest.
Eat wild plums.
Fish the dark side of the lake.
Play with bear cubs.
During the winter gathering a visitor shows up who is sick and eventually dies. What does the visitor die of that has everyone in the village scared?
flu
smallpox
pneumonia
cholera
How many Ojibwa from Omakayas's village died during the smallpox of 1847?
18
24
6
12
What game does Deydey play to get free supplies from the trader Cadotte?
Checkers
Poker
Chess
Backgammon
What spirit helper does Omokayas eventually dream of?
The bear spirit woman.
The moose spirit woman.
The rabbit spirit woman.
The coyote spirit woman.
Select all the individual stories that are told in the book.
Grandma's Story: Fishing the Dark Side of the Lake (Story told by Nokomis)
Nanabozho and Muskrat Make an Earth (Story told by Nokomis)
Deydey's Ghost Story (Story told by Deydey)
Omakayas's Bear Cub Playdate (Story told by Omakayas)
Who saves the family from hunger?
Andeg
The Whitefish
The Brown Bear
The One Horn Buck
What was the first saving laugh that Omakayas's brother Pinch provided during winter?
He set the seat of his pants on fire.
He fell into a huge snow drift.
He did an impression of Deydey.
He danced around the cabin.
What does Omakayas ask her bear brothers for when she meets them in the woods during the spring?
To play with her.
To bring her baby brother back.
For their medicine.
For their help finding food.
What is Omakayas chosen to be?
A gatherer.
A guardian.
A hunter.
A healer.
Who did Omakayas make better with her medicine for the first time?
Pinch
Deydey
Yellow Kettle
Nokomis
Who and/or what does Omakayas lose that leaves huge holes in her life due to their loss? Select all.
Neewo
Ten Snow
Andeg
Tallow
At the end of the book we find out who the baby was that Tallow saved at the beginning of the book. Who was the baby?
Yellow Kettle
Nokomis
Omakayas
Angeline
What kept Omakayas alive on Spirit Island before she was rescued by Tallow?
Birds
Bears
Raccoons
Wolves
Whose voice does Omakayas hear telling her to "cheer up and live".
Neewo
Ten Snow
The bear spirit woman
Nokomis
