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Thunder Rolling in the Mountains

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is the narrator?

a)

Sounds of Running Feet

b)

Chief Joseph

c)

Swan Necklace

d)

Two Moons

2.

Which chieftain has made some bad decisions and cost the tribe much suffering?

a)

Chief Joseph

b)

Tu-hul-hul-sote

c)

White Bird

d)

Looking Glass

3.

Which correctly describes the Red Coats?

a)

The red coats are a group of young women who hunt buffalo meat for the tribe.

b)

The red coats are a group of old men that stay behind to protect women and children.

c)

The red coats are a group of white soldiers that hate the Nez Perce.

d)

The red coats are a group of warriors that have sworn to fight the whites.

4.

Looking Glass told his people that they could seek safety, or refuge with the (a)   tribe.

5.

What made the trip through the Bitterroot Mountains such a challenge?

a)

not enough horses

b)

Steep hills, narrow trails, rain, and little food

c)

soldiers shooting at the people

d)

Chief Joseph made his people travel too quickly.

6.

What do the Nez Perce plan to do to seek safety from the whites?

a)

attack a white settlement near Lapwai

b)

try and beg the Crow for help

c)

go south towards Colorado

d)

go to Canada, the Old Lady's country

7.

What was Sounds of Running Feet's mother's name?

(a)  

8.

The sun climbed half way of the sky. What type of figurative language is this?

a)

simile

b)

personification

c)

idiom

d)

metaphor

9.

What type of figurative language is this?

The wind swept across the plain turning our bones to ice.

a)

idioim

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

personification

10.

What happened that alerted the Nez Perce that the Blue Coats were near?

a)

Chief Joseph had a vision

b)

a herd of stampeding buffalo

c)

Wah-lit-tis spirit came back and warned the Nez Perce

d)

The one armed general came and told them the blue coats were coming

11.

What happened as the Blue Coats came into the Nez Perce camp on the cold icy plains?

a)

Swan Necklace was killed by a Cheyenne warrior.

b)

Chief Joseph was killed by General Howard.

c)

Chief Joseph grabbed a pony and told Sounds of Running Feet to escape to Sitting Bull.

d)

The Red Coats defeated and killed all of Blue Coats.

12.

What type of figurative language?

We were too busy to talk but our eyes spoke for us.

a)

personification

b)

simile

c)

idiom

d)

metaphor

13.

What type of figurative language?

Now and again a lone rifle barked.

a)

idiom

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

metaphor

14.

Why did the Nez Perce not start a fire after the battle with the white soldiers?

a)

they didn't want the soldiers to see them

b)

they did not have anything to start a fire with

c)

the buffalo chips were wet

d)

they could not find any wood

15.

What type of figurative language?

His eyes were hot coals of fire.

a)

personification

b)

idiom

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

16.

Swan Necklace will marry (a)   .