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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Pretty-shield get caught when she was running away from a mad buffalo bull?
(a) Her moccasin string caught on a sage bush.
(b) She tripped over a large rock.
(c) Her hair got caught in a tree branch.
(d) Her buckskin dress got caught on a tree branch.

2. How many bad faults did Pretty-shield say her father had?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Five.

3. When Pretty-shield told Linderman about the very hot summer in Chapter 7, how hot was that day?
(a) So hot that the horses were dripping sweat while standing.
(b) So hot that no one could move outside their homes.
(c) So hot that the water was evaporating.
(d) So hot that the animals were going mad.

4. When the horse went crazy on Pretty-shield's friend when her mother asked her to drive the horse band, what were the plains covered with?
(a) Rattlesnakes.
(b) Cactus plants.
(c) Sage bushes.
(d) Crickets.

5. How many children did Pretty-shield's parents have?
(a) 10.
(b) 11.
(c) 13.
(d) 9.

6. What was Pretty-shield's dress covered with when she finally came out of the tree after being stuck there with bears at the bottom?
(a) Ants.
(b) Bark.
(c) Pitch.
(d) Pine needles.

7. Where did the Crow brave drive his knife into the bear that he killed?
(a) In the bear's leg.
(b) In the bear's head.
(c) In the bear's throat.
(d) In the bear's heart.

8. What killed Pretty-shield's father?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) A Lakota warrior.
(c) A mad buffalo bull.
(d) A grizzly bear.

9. What color was the tobacco seed pouch that Linderman put into his coat pocket?
(a) Black.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

10. 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?
(a) Pinecones.
(b) Buffalo hair.
(c) Antelope hair.
(d) Horse hair.

11. What was the boy eating in Chapter 4 when the coyote came to him?
(a) A liver from a buffalo calf.
(b) A heart from a buffalo calf.
(c) A brain from a buffalo calf.
(d) A kidney from a buffalo calf.

12. Pretty-shield claimed that she knew a woman that had what type of animal that could talk?
(a) A bear.
(b) A dog.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A crow.

13. What did Pretty-shield do when her father's buckskin horse "took over"?
(a) She jumped off.
(b) She screamed.
(c) She laughed.
(d) She whipped him.

14. What did the boy stuff into the gun that the children had found?
(a) Pine needles.
(b) Rocks.
(c) Sage bush leaves.
(d) Buffalo chips.

15. In the story of Red-woman, the boy, and the coyote, how many arrows did the boy hand to the woman when she asked to see his arrows?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Nine.
(d) Fifteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the Crow wolf that Pretty-shield recognized high on a hill?

2. How often was the ceremonial tobacco seed planted?

3. What kind of teeth did Pretty-shield have on her buckskin dress?

4. What did Kills-good use for drinking cups?

5. What was the name of Pretty-shield's father?

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