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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. Who was the wife of the Crow chief who Pretty-shield wanted to emulate?

2. What was the name of the "borrowed" baby in Chapter 5?

3. What did Pretty-shield claim brought the best change of all for the Crows?

4. After the boy was shot with the gun that was found, where did his older brother tie the gun?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 5, who does Pretty-shield mention talking to about the time they lost a baby?

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 see that made her think that all children are alike?

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

4. What did Pretty-shield do during the bear attack on the women picking berries?

5. Describe the first white men that Pretty-shield met.

6. Describe how Pretty-shield received the scar on her forehead.

7. What did Pretty-shield do when the girl in the calico dress suggested they take a swim in the creek?

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

9. Describe Kills-good.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Pretty-shield describe the way of life for Crows in modern day compared to life as it was growing up as a little girl? What things do you think Pretty-shield misses most about the Crow life as a child? Why?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

In Chapter 13, Pretty-shield mentions her medicine dream to Linderman. What did her dream involve, and what happened that led up to her receiving this medicine dream? What animal ended up being Pretty-shield's medicine and how does she describe them?

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