Q 01/05

In Buffalo Before Breakfast, what small accident by the Lakota boy sets off the buffalo stampede?

A) A loud cough

B) A sneeze

C) A snapped twig

D) A dropped arrow

Answer · why

B) A sneeze

A sneeze is all it takes: the nearest buffalo jerks up its head and rushes at him, and the panic ripples through the whole herd.

Q 02/05

Which gift from the Lakota boy's grandmother completes Jack and Annie's mission in Buffalo Before Breakfast?

A) An eagle feather

B) A beaded moccasin

C) A bear-claw necklace

D) A buffalo-horn cup

Answer · why

A) An eagle feather

An eagle feather solves the riddle: the bird rules the wide blue sky over the plains, and the grandmother presents it to honor what the children did a...

Q 03/05

In Buffalo Before Breakfast, which young Lakota warrior takes Jack and Annie to meet his grandmother?

A) Red Cloud

B) Little Bear

C) Black Hawk

D) Running Deer

Answer · why

C) Black Hawk

Black Hawk looks like a grown warrior on horseback until he comes close: he is a boy of about ten or eleven on a pony.

Q 04/05

In the eighteenth Magic Tree House book, which Lakota spirit helps Annie calm the stampeding herd?

A) Deer Woman

B) Buffalo Calf Road Woman

C) Corn Mother

D) White Buffalo Woman

Answer · why

D) White Buffalo Woman

White Buffalo Woman appears beside Annie, raises her hands and vanishes once the herd is calm; in Lakota tradition she is a sacred messenger.

Q 05/05

As Jack reads in Buffalo Before Breakfast, the American buffalo is more correctly known by which name?

A) Bison

B) Moose

C) Caribou

D) Pronghorn

Answer · why

A) Bison

Bison is the accurate name: the word buffalo properly belongs to the water buffalo of Asia and the African buffalo, and early European explorers borro...