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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the woman who was attacked by the grizzly bear?

2. What month was Pretty-shield born in?

3. Why didn't the bear cub answer his mother when she called him?

4. Who were Yellow-calf and his war-party wiped out by?

5. Who did Pretty-shield claim she robbed, along with another girl?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Pretty-shield's answer when Linderman asked if she had ever whipped her own children?

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

3. What did Kills-good use for dishes and drinking cups?

4. Why did Pretty-shield state that the Crows could not all live together?

5. What would the men, women, and children do when the village crier would ride through to tell the people that it was time to move?

6. What was the only instance where a woman's name could be changed, according to Pretty-shield?

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

8. When Pretty-shield and the other children made a pretend village, the village was so real that they felt they had to do what?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Pretty-shield mean in Chapter 19 when she states, "when the buffalo went away, the hearts of my people fell to the ground"?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Pretty-shield's experience of having a baby that she tells Linderman about in Chapter 11; explain how you think this experience affected Pretty-shield. How was it helpful to have others there with her during this experience? Do you think Pretty-shield was strong enough to have a baby on her own during this time? Why or why not? Explain your answers.

Essay Topic 3

How do you think Pretty-shield suppressed her anger towards the white man? What they had done to her tribe? How do you think Pretty-shield's view of the white man changed from the time she met her first white trappers to the days of the Smallpox and white men killing all the buffalo on the plains? Do you think it was hard for Pretty-shield to tell her story to a white man?

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