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Birchbark House Chapters 1 - 4
What does Omakayas least like to do?
What tribe is Omakayas a part of?
Birchbark House Chapters 1 - 4
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What tribe is Omakayas a part of?
Dakota
Birchhouses
Lakota
Anishinabeg
2
What does Omakayas least like to do?
Fetch the scissors from Old Tallow
Pick berries to eat
Scrape animal hides
Prepare wild rice
3
Who is Omakayas's annoying little brother?
Old Tallow
Neewo
Little Pinch
Deydey
4
What does Deydey do for a living?
He makes medicines to heal people
He plays music
He travels by canoe and trades
He drives semi trucks
5
What does "Omakayas" mean in english?
Big Bear
Little Frog
Crow Mother
Little One of the Forest
6
What does baby Neewo's name mean?
Owl Boy
Little Bear
fourth
Young Buck
7
Why did Omakayas try to sneak out of the back of the wigwam in chapter 1?
To escape an attack by an enemy
To go visit Old Tallow
To see if she could scare her sister
To escape from scraping the moose hide
8
What is Old Tallow really good at?
Hunting
Playing Baseball
Tanning Hides
Building Wigwams
9
What is Omakayas's baby brother's name?
Jason
Little Pinch
Neewo
Angeline
10
How does Deydey say his rifle got broken?
He had used it so much that it was worn out
He dropped it on a pile of rocks
He was fighting off a bear attack
He broke it while hitting the ghosts' feet
11
What did Omakayas do with baby Neewo that her mom said was forbidden?
She allowed him to swim in the lake
She named him without telling anyone
She removed him from his tikinagun
She brought him to meet the bear cubs
12
What does Old Tallow give to Omakayas?
Her father's makazins
A Hide Scraper
A piece of maple sugar
A moose hide
13
What does that family find right at the end of chapter 4?
The crow that Omakayas had kept
A European trader that has come to visit
A new patch of berries
The buck with one antler
14
The island the family lives on is called the "Island of the _______________.
Golden Breasted Woodpecker
One Horn Deer
Owl of the night
Crow who squawks at night
15
What did Omakayas and Angeline end up using to catch crows?
Bow and Arrow
Grandma's fishing net
A trap that they made out of sticks
Spears
16
When traders found a baby alone on an island at the beginning, what had happened to her family?
They had been attacked and robbed by other traders
They had been killed by the Dakota
They had all abandoned the island
They all had died from smallpox
17
What is Omakayas's grandma's name?
Deydey
Mary
Nokomis
Old Tallow
18
What kind of house does Omakayas's family live in?
Longhouse
Stone Lodge
Wigwam
Tipi
19
What kind of ghosts were in Deydey's story?
Ghosts of his ancestors
Cannibal Ghosts
Friendly Ghosts
Spirits that lead the way on Lake Superior
20
What did Omakayas need to get from Old Tallow?
Her mother's scissors
An Iphone
A bow and arrow
A moose hide
21
Why did Grandma Nokomis start calling Little Pinch "Big Pinch"?
He had grown so much during the summer
He had a bad habit of pinching when he got angry
She did not call him Big Pinch
He kept stuffing his face full of food
22
What does Deydey give to grandma Nokomis as a gift?
A Blanket
A piece of indigo ribbon
Red Cloth
Tobacco
23
In Deydey's ghost story, what do the ghosts say about the thunderstorm?
They wanted to make waves on the lake to sink boats
They tried to make trees fall on the travelers
They started the storm to trap people on their island
They are afraid of storms
24
Why did Omakayas end up keeping one of the crows?
She talked to the crow and it said it wanted to stay
She had no friends so she decided the crow could be a friend
The crow was impossible to scare away
It had a broken wing and she felt bad
25
In chapter 1, what does Omakayas help her grandma, Nokomis, do?
Pick berries
Hunt a moose for hide
Retrieve bark to make the wigwam
Cook wild rice in a pot
26
What is the name of Omakayas's big sister?
Amy
Angeline
Amakayas
Angela
27
What gift does Omakayas get that she dislikes?
A bear stuffed animal
Deydey's rifle as a hide scraper
A dress
A new pair of makazins
28
What was Omakayas's father's actual name?
Mikwam
Moniningkawing
Rick
Waubinakway
29
How many husbands had Old Tallow had?
1
3
5
4
30
How old is Omakayas in this story?
7
36
13
15
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When Deydey comes home, what does he order Omakayas and Angeline to do?
Help Old Tallow hunt for the mama bear
Scare crows out of the corn fields
Tan moose hides for sewing
Go on a trading voyage with him
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Who is the author of The Birchbark House?
Mike Reilly
Louise Erdrich
William Shakespeare
Leann Eastman
