Medicine Bag: Vocab and Analysis Assessment

Which of the following words gives the most likely meaning of "wearily" as it is used in this sentence?

"After a ten-mile hike, we ate an early dinner and then climbed wearily into out tents."

• sadly

• tiredly

• playfully

• carefully

If Kris asks a question sheepishly, how does she ask it?

• in a bold way

• in a clever way

• in an annoying way

• in an embarrassed way

Which person best demonstrates the meaning of frail?

• a famous athlete signing autographs

• a sickly person being helped up the stairs

• a shopper complaining about poor service in a store

• a middle-school student taking high-school math classes

At the end of "The Medicine Bag," for which of the following is the medicine bag most clearly a symbol. Choose TWO options.

• Martin's desire to please his friends

• Martin's respect for his grandfather

• Martin's dislike for his Lakota heritage

• Martin's acceptance of his family heritage

• Martin's feelings of embarrassment about Grandpa

In "The Medicine Bag," Grandpa describes a piece of iron his father once found. What does the piece of iron most likely symbolize?

• his father's purpose in life

• his father's death in a coming war

• his father's distrust of white people

• his father's refusal to learn from his elders

Which quotation from "The Medicine Bag" most clearly supports the iron symbolizing Grandpa's father's purpose in life.

• "He did not understand his vision of finding something belonging to the white people, for in that time they were the enemy."

• "At first Iron Shell resisted the teachers' attempts to change him, and he did not try."

• "As he walked into the place, he knew that his medicine had brought him there to learn and work with the white man's iron."

• "I kept the bag until my son, your mother's father, was a man and had to leave us to fight in the war across the ocean."