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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. Why did Pretty-shield cover piles of meat with buffalo robes and trample on them?
(a) To rid the meat of evil spirits.
(b) To make the meat tough.
(c) To squeeze out the blood in the meat.
(d) To give the meat better taste.

2. Who came to Feather-woman and told her that they knew she was sorry for what she had done?
(a) A buffalo cow.
(b) A Crow wolf.
(c) A grizzly bear.
(d) A mountain-lion.

3. 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 broken a tribe law.
(c) Because she had told them she liked the Crow village better.
(d) Because she was too old to walk back.

4. What song was the old Negro errand runner playing on his mouth organ in the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) Listen to the Mockingbird.
(b) The River Jordan.
(c) Oh! Susanna.
(d) Amazing Grace.

5. How old was Pretty-shield when her man "took her"?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Seventeen.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Crow and Lakota people formed a great circle and Sitting Bull sat in the middle of the circle, what did he place across his knees?

2. Where was meat usually roasted, according to Pretty-shield?

3. What did the husband of Lion-woman do to himself when he was reunited with his family?

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

5. When did the Crow put their babies into back-cradles?

Short Essay Questions

1. What question did Linderman ask Pretty-shield in the beginning of Chapter 16 that pleased her?

2. How was meat cooked in what Pretty-shield refers to as meat-holes?

3. What happened when the Crow's land was leased to white stock-men?

4. Why was Feather-woman not chosen to go back with her Lakota people?

5. In the story of Lost-boy, how did Lost-boy burn his face?

6. According to Pretty-shield, how were babies bathed?

7. When the woman first met the white bear in the story of Lost-boy, what did the white bear offer the woman and her child?

8. How did Pretty-shield reply when Linderman asked her if the men who had died at Little Bighorn had been buried?

9. What happened to the woman that was picking plums and was bitten by a rattlesnake?

10. What precautions did the women take that had just had a baby?

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