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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Leaping-deer.
(b) Yellow-flower.
(c) Strong-river.
(d) Corn-woman.

2. What did the husband of Lion-woman do to himself when he was reunited with his family?
(a) He fasted for ten days straight.
(b) He drew blood from his arms with his knife.
(c) He cut off one of his fingers.
(d) He sang to the heavens.

3. Pretty-shield mentions that "the Great Chief in Washington" sends a paper to her every moon that she trades for how much?
(a) Thirty dollars.
(b) Twenty dollars.
(c) Forty dollars.
(d) Fifty dollars.

4. How many Crow women were captured by the Lakota in the story of the woman escaping from the Lakota village?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Eight.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eighteen.

5. What did Tricky-wolf paint an otter doing on Good-otters' lodge?
(a) Breathing red fire.
(b) Shooting a bow and arrow.
(c) Dancing under the sun.
(d) Swimming in a river.

6. What did Pretty-shield use to tan her robes and skins?
(a) Sunflowers and cactus.
(b) The intestines and stomach of the animal.
(c) Roots and dirt.
(d) The liver and brains of the animal.

7. When did the Crow put their babies into back-cradles?
(a) When they were two moons old.
(b) When they were eight moons old.
(c) When they were five moons old.
(d) When they were six moons old.

8. 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?
(a) Chase other colts.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Drink from the river.
(d) Walk.

9. When Linderman was walking back toward the school building in the beginning of Chapter 12, how many chickadees did he see?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

10. 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?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

11. What kind of arrow was stuck in the buffalo cow that the Crow hunters found?
(a) A Lakota arrow.
(b) A Snake arrow.
(c) A Cheyenne arrow.
(d) A Crow arrow.

12. How old was the woman Strikes-two when she rode through the Crow camp singing her medicine song?
(a) 65.
(b) 70.
(c) 55.
(d) 60.

13. What was Linderman's answer to Pretty-shield's question about how old Plenty-coups said he was?
(a) 64.
(b) 49.
(c) 83.
(d) 72.

14. When Pretty-shield told Linderman the story of the woman who escaped from the Lakota, who did she mention knew this woman?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her grandmother.

15. How old was Pretty-shield when her man "took her"?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Fourteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was also known as Son-of-the-morning-star?

2. Why wouldn't any of the Lakota people take Feather-woman back with them?

3. When the Crow chief was meeting with some blue soldiers, how many young Crow men promised to meet the blue soldiers at the mouth of the Tongue River after the talking was over?

4. What was another name for The-mountain-lion's-lodge?

5. What was the name of Sitting-heifer's man?

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