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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. How many people was Son-of-the-morning-sun with when he died?

2. What month was Pretty-shield talking about when she states that something happened in the moon when leaves are showing?

3. When Pretty-shield and her mother were looking for the colt that had lagged behind, what wouldn't Pretty-shield's mother let the colt do?

4. What color did the men paint their faces to show a sign of victory?

5. How old was the woman Strikes-two when she rode through the Crow camp singing her medicine song?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the story of Lost-boy, how did Lost-boy burn his face?

2. Who were some of the Sore-lip members that Pretty-shield mentioned in Chapter 17, and what was their medicine?

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

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

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

6. What did the mountain lion say to Feather-woman?

7. According to Pretty-shield, how were babies bathed?

8. What did the daughter do when her mother told her to go to Lost-boy and be his woman?

9. How does Pretty-shield describe Goes-ahead?

10. What did Pretty-shield state were the happiest days of her life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Pretty-shield's experience with the old white mare riding in the midst of a running buffalo herd. What fears did Pretty-shield have to overcome during this short period of time? How do you think this experience affected Pretty-shield as a Crow Indian? How do you think this affected her as a woman? Do you think she was afraid to ride next to a buffalo herd again?

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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