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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. On the fourth morning, the stranger came to the woman and her daughter and told them his name. What was his name?

2. How long did the woman let the meat dry that had been cut off the young buffalo cow?

3. Who came to Feather-woman and told her that they knew she was sorry for what she had done?

4. After the woman escaped with her child and was running from the Lakota, how many parties of Lakota did she spot on the third day?

5. When Pretty-shield was talking about the buffalo going away, how long does she say it has been since she saw a buffalo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What bird did Pretty-shield tell Linderman had big medicine, and what did she ask Linderman about this particular bird?

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

5. Who was the Crow that "challenged" Sitting Bull, and what important question did he ask Sitting Bull?

6. How did Linderman reply when Pretty-shield asked him if he had ever talked to animal-people?

7. What was the name of the aged Negro that Linderman mentioned in Chapter 15, and who had he been a servant to?

8. Who were the people that accompanied General Custer to the battle at Little Bighorn?

9. What are some of the tribes that Pretty-shield mentioned in Chapter 14 that never let her people rest because they were always at war?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Pretty-shield. Describe Pretty-shield's characteristics and ideals. What things were important to Pretty-shield while growing up? What things were important to Pretty-shield as an old woman?

Essay Topic 3

How do you think Pretty-shield hoped to change the view on the Crow culture by helping with this book? What things do you think Linderman learned from writing this book speaking with Pretty-shield? How much did you learn about the Crow culture that you didn't know before?

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