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Grade 5 Unit 1 Lesson 4 Quiz

State: NA
Grade: 5

1. Which of the following describes the Great Plains?

a. hills and mountains
b. vast and nearly flat region
c. marshy swamp
d. dry desert

2. "All children on the Great Plains learned _____."

a. to sew
b. hunting skills
c. how to clean animal skins
d. listening skills

3. What animal changed the way Native Americans of the Plains hunted?

a. horse
b. sheep
c. bison
d. wolf

4. How did young boys show courage?

a. by killing an enemy
b. by hunting a bison
c. by touching an enemy without killing him
d. by making a winter count

5. What is a winter count?

a. a special pole
b. paintings created in order to tell the most important events of the year
c. the amount of snowfall
d. a type of teepee