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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Five and Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was the baby that Pretty-shield and the other girls offered to take care of in Chapter 5?
(a) Two.
(b) Eighteen months.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

2. What did Kills-good use for drinking cups?
(a) Buffalo horns.
(b) Buffalo hooves.
(c) Horse hooves.
(d) Mountain-sheep horns.

3. What did men in the tribe do when they grew too old to take care of themselves?
(a) They dressed in their finest clothes and went to war against the enemy.
(b) They wandered off to enjoy the afterlife.
(c) They would sit in their cottage and tell stories and the young would take of them.
(d) They stayed in a cave and fought whatever animals they could find until they died.

4. What was the boy eating in Chapter 4 when the coyote came to him?
(a) A liver from a buffalo calf.
(b) A heart from a buffalo calf.
(c) A kidney from a buffalo calf.
(d) A brain from a buffalo calf.

5. Who was discovered looking down at the children when they were performing their sun dance?
(a) A Crow wolf.
(b) A mad buffalo cow.
(c) A Lakota war party.
(d) A grizzly bear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did all Northwestern tribes make out of porcupine tails?

2. How many children did Pretty-shield's parents have?

3. What were the downy feathers of an eagle or any other bird called?

4. Pretty-shield's ball, that she had when she was young, was made by the skin that is over a buffalo's heart, stuffed with what?

5. Who did Pretty-shield claim she robbed, along with another girl?

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