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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Nine and Ten.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the children were performing their sun dance, they used whistles. What were these whistles made of?
(a) The grass reeds from the river.
(b) The big bone of an eagle's wing.
(c) The quills of a porcupine.
(d) The antlers of an antelope.

2. What did men in the tribe do when they grew too old to take care of themselves?
(a) They wandered off to enjoy the afterlife.
(b) They dressed in their finest clothes and went to war against the enemy.
(c) They would sit in their cottage and tell stories and the young would take of them.
(d) They stayed in a cave and fought whatever animals they could find until they died.

3. Pretty-shield claimed that her father was nice to everyone but who?
(a) His sister.
(b) His enemies.
(c) The chief.
(d) His mother-in-law.

4. Pretty-shield claimed in Chapter 8 that a grizzly bear once bit off a woman's what?
(a) Hand.
(b) Arm.
(c) Leg.
(d) Nose.

5. What did Pretty-shield use to "attend to" one of her grandchild's noses?
(a) Her robe.
(b) A used handkerchief.
(c) Her scarf.
(d) Her blanket.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did all Northwestern tribes make out of porcupine tails?

2. What did Pretty-shield claim brought the best change of all for the Crows?

3. When Pretty-shield's mother ran after the horse in the beginning of Chapter 3, how many men did she see?

4. According to Pretty-shield, the skull that she and the other children found that was abnormally large had a neck bone that was larger than what?

5. Pretty-shield's ball, that she had when she was young, was made by the skin that is over a buffalo's heart, stuffed with what?

(see the answer key)

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