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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 are the two months when rattlesnakes are bad, according to Pretty-shield?
2. When Linderman was walking back toward the school building in the beginning of Chapter 12, how many chickadees did he see?
3. When Pretty-shield was telling Linderman about how much work goes into preparing for a sun-dance, how many buffalo tongues did she mention needed to feed the warriors who had counted coup in battle?
4. In the springtime, how many tongues does the chickadee have, according to Pretty-shield?
5. On the fourth morning, the stranger came to the woman and her daughter and told them his name. What was his name?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who were the people that accompanied General Custer to the battle at Little Bighorn?
2. What did the mountain lion say to Feather-woman?
3. In the story of Lost-boy, how did Lost-boy burn his face?
4. In the story of the woman-mouse, what did the woman-mouse whisper in Little-face's ear?
5. Why was Feather-woman not chosen to go back with her Lakota people?
6. Who were some of the Sore-lip members that Pretty-shield mentioned in Chapter 17, and what was their medicine?
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. At what age was Pretty-shield promised to her man, what was his name, and at what age were they married?
9. How did Pretty-shield reply when Linderman asked her if the men who had died at Little Bighorn had been buried?
10. According to Pretty-shield, how were babies bathed?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
After reading this book, what were some ideas of important staples the Crow people had in every day life? How does Pretty-shield incorporate these staples into her stories? How does she describe the need for these particular items? How do you think the Crow life would be different without one, some, or all of these staples?
Essay Topic 2
Pretty-shield was sent to live with her aunt when she was very young instead of having her mother raise her. How do you think this experience benefited Pretty-shield as well as her aunt? What did Pretty-shield and her aunt learn from this experience? Do you think Pretty-shield's mother was okay with this arrangement or do you think she regretted it?
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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