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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Pretty-shield's boy that lived past being a baby?
(a) Good.
(b) Five-coats.
(c) Small.
(d) Litte-bear.

2. How old was the woman Strikes-two when she rode through the Crow camp singing her medicine song?
(a) 60.
(b) 70.
(c) 65.
(d) 55.

3. What month was Pretty-shield talking about when she states that something happened in the moon when leaves are showing?
(a) May.
(b) September.
(c) March.
(d) July.

4. How many children did Pretty-shield have?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Ten.

5. Why wouldn't any of the Lakota people take Feather-woman back with them?
(a) Because she had killed her own man.
(b) Because she had told them she liked the Crow village better.
(c) Because she was too old to walk back.
(d) Because she had broken a tribe law.

6. Along what river was the Big Tree located?
(a) The Missouri River.
(b) The Elkhorn River.
(c) The Colorado River.
(d) The Platte River.

7. What was another name for The-mountain-lion's-lodge?
(a) Traveler's Rest.
(b) Beaverhead Cache.
(c) Pompey's Pillar.
(d) Bozeman Pass.

8. When Pretty-shield and her mother were looking for the colt that had lagged behind, what wouldn't Pretty-shield's mother let the colt do?
(a) Drink from the river.
(b) Walk.
(c) Chase other colts.
(d) Nurse.

9. How old was Pretty-shield when she was promised to Goes-ahead?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Thirteen.

10. Pretty-shield mentions that "the Great Chief in Washington" sends a paper to her every moon that she trades for how much?
(a) Fifty dollars.
(b) Thirty dollars.
(c) Forty dollars.
(d) Twenty dollars.

11. When Linderman was leaving the school building in the beginning of Chapter 12, what were the prisoners doing?
(a) Cleaning toilets.
(b) Gathering trash off the sides of the street.
(c) Raking leaves.
(d) Sweeping the sidewalk.

12. Who called Pretty-shield a "brave little woman" when she was a girl and picked her up and carried her to her mother?
(a) Corn-woman.
(b) Leaping-deer.
(c) Yellow-flower.
(d) Strong-river.

13. In the beginning of Chapter 18, Linderman asks Pretty-shield if Goes-ahead was with who when they died?
(a) Crazy Horse.
(b) General Custer.
(c) Sitting Bull.
(d) General Terry.

14. In the springtime, how many tongues does the chickadee have, according to Pretty-shield?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Seven.
(d) One.

15. Where was meat usually roasted, according to Pretty-shield?
(a) Over the fire in the chief's lodge.
(b) In the sun on rocks.
(c) In holes in the ground.
(d) On sticks over the fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lodges were set up in the Crow camp in the story of the woman mouse?

2. When the woman and her young daughter knelt down to take a drink, what kind of tracks did they find in the mud by the river?

3. When Linderman was walking back toward the school building in the beginning of Chapter 12, how many chickadees did he see?

4. When Plenty-coups entered the sun-lodge with three other warriors, he gave a war cry and then did what?

5. When Pretty-shield was talking about the buffalo going away, how long does she say it has been since she saw a buffalo?

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