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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. 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) Bark.
(b) Pine needles.
(c) Ants.
(d) Pitch.

2. After the boy was shot with the gun that was found, where did his older brother tie the gun?
(a) On his back.
(b) To a tree.
(c) To the shooter's chest.
(d) To his horse.

3. How many young women were sliding down the hill when Pretty-shield thought she saw a wolf from their tribe warn them of oncoming enemies?
(a) Ten.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Eight.

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

5. When Pretty-shield's mother ran after the horse in the beginning of Chapter 3, how many men did she see?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) None.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name for a bowl-like, skin-covered boat?

2. What did the boy stuff into the gun that the children had found?

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

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

5. Pretty-shield claimed that she knew a woman that had what type of animal that could talk?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe how Pretty-shield's kicking ball was made.

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

4. In Chapter 3, how did Pretty-shield describe her father?

5. In Chapter 4, what did the coyote tell the boy to do to get rid of Red-woman?

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

7. What did Pretty-shield tell Linderman about the white bear or grizzly bear?

8. What did Pretty-shield say to the woman who stopped at the creek with her baby to let her horse drink?

9. What did Pretty-shield state the Crows are fond of doing, in Chapter 2?

10. Describe the kicking ball game that Pretty-shield talks about playing in Chapter 8.

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