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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many boys were in the group of children that decided to pretend to perform the sun dance in Chapter 2?
(a) None.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

2. How many times did the mother bear slap her boy cub?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

3. How old was the baby that Pretty-shield and the other girls offered to take care of in Chapter 5?
(a) Eighteen months.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

4. What were the downy feathers of an eagle or any other bird called?
(a) Prayer-feathers.
(b) Breath-feathers.
(c) Soft-feathers.
(d) Light-feathers.

5. What would a Crow man sometimes offer if he wanted a woman?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Horses.
(d) Buffalo skins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pretty-shield call Frank Linderman?

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

3. What was the boy eating in Chapter 4 when the coyote came to him?

4. What color were the arrow-points that Pretty-shield found in a large pile?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Pretty-shield see that made her think that all children are alike?

2. Describe Kills-good.

3. What did Pretty-shield bring for Linderman in the tiny buckskin pouch and what did she warn him against after handing it to him?

4. How did the Crows get the Smallpox, and how did it affect their tribe?

5. How did Pretty-shield describe the happy Crow life, and how was their life changed by the horse?

6. When Linderman was closing the damper on the big stove, what was he wondering about asking Pretty-shield?

7. At the end of Chapter 5, what did Linderman ask Pretty-shield as she walked stiffly to the door, and what was Pretty-shield's reply?

8. What are a couple of the things that Pretty-shield describes as being "strange things" in Crow country?

9. What had the bear done to Kills-by-the-water?

10. Describe what happened when Pretty-shield's mother chased after the horse that ran away from her.

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