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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 called Pretty-shield a "brave little woman" when she was a girl and picked her up and carried her to her mother?
2. What did Pretty-shield claim happened to her people when the buffalo went away?
3. When Pretty-shield told Linderman the story of the woman who escaped from the Lakota, who did she mention knew this woman?
4. What was the name of the wise-one that went to the birthing lodge with Pretty-shield and her mother?
5. Why wouldn't any of the Lakota people take Feather-woman back with them?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who were some of the Sore-lip members that Pretty-shield mentioned in Chapter 17, and what was their medicine?
2. What did the mountain lion say to Feather-woman?
3. What did the daughter do when her mother told her to go to Lost-boy and be his woman?
4. 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?
5. Who were the people that accompanied General Custer to the battle at Little Bighorn?
6. What precautions did the women take that had just had a baby?
7. What question did Linderman ask Pretty-shield in the beginning of Chapter 16 that pleased her?
8. In the story of the woman-mouse, what did the woman-mouse whisper in Little-face's ear?
9. In the story of Lost-boy, how did Lost-boy burn his face?
10. How was meat cooked in what Pretty-shield refers to as meat-holes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Pretty-shield was obviously involved with all of her grandchildren's lives.What do you think Pretty-shield's hopes for her grandchildren were? What fears do you think she had for their futures? What changes in her lifetime evoked these hopes and fears?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the two different occasions when Pretty-shield met "the white man". Compare and contrast these two experiences. How do you think each of these experiences molded Pretty-shield's view of the white man? Do you think it was beneficial for her to have these two very different experiences? Why or why not?
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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