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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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?
(a) A deer.
(b) A skunk.
(c) A white bear.
(d) A squirrel.

4. What did it mean when Pretty-shield mentioned that Goes-ahead was a Fox?
(a) He was a member of a secret society.
(b) He was a good spy.
(c) He was a good father.
(d) He was a great hunter.

5. What color did the men paint their faces to show a sign of victory?
(a) Black.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) White.

6. How many lodges were set up in the Crow camp in the story of the woman mouse?
(a) Seventy.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Forty.

7. What month is it when it's "in the moon that plums fall"?
(a) January.
(b) October.
(c) August.
(d) September.

8. How many "snows ago" did Pretty-shield tell Linderman her man, Goes-ahead, had been gone?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 11.

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

10. How much did the white men pay for each pair of horse's ears to get the horses killed?
(a) $4.
(b) $5.
(c) $2.
(d) $3.

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

12. How many times did the woman's daughter go into the man's lodge and lay inside by the door and get sent out?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Ten.

13. What was the name of the chief that warned the Crow men that they were not to hurt the Lakota visitors?
(a) Silver-tip.
(b) White-cloud.
(c) Willow-whip.
(d) Water-chaser.

14. When Pretty-shield was talking about the buffalo going away, how long does she say it has been since she saw a buffalo?
(a) More than 35 years.
(b) More than 40 years.
(c) More than 45 years.
(d) More than 20 years.

15. On the fourth morning, the stranger came to the woman and her daughter and told them his name. What was his name?
(a) Sharp-claws.
(b) Lone-hunter.
(c) Lost-boy.
(d) White-eagle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did the woman let the meat dry that had been cut off the young buffalo cow?

2. How many Crow women were captured by the Lakota in the story of the woman escaping from the Lakota village?

3. In the story of raking the plums, where did the woman get bitten by a rattlesnake?

4. What are the two months when rattlesnakes are bad, according to Pretty-shield?

5. What month was Pretty-shield talking about when she states that something happened in the moon when leaves are showing?

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