Poundmaker: Leadership in a hungry spring
ViewingGrade 8
Answer the multiple-choice questions below.
1.
By the 1870s, what does the narration say was collapsing on the northern Plains?
- (A) Buffalo herds—the main food economy on the Plains
- (B) Only the fur trade in Quebec, with no hunger on the Prairies
- (C) Treaty Six being cancelled before it was signed
- (D) The North-West Mounted Police replacing every local government
2.
Who is introduced as a head chief known for oratory and diplomacy?
- (A) Lieutenant-Colonel Otter, who led the column at Cut Knife
- (B) Poundmaker
- (C) Major-General Middleton, who received the surrender at Battleford
- (D) Louis Riel, leader at Batoche in the same spring
3.
During Treaty Six talks, what does the narration say he pressed Crown negotiators on?
- (A) Mining rights for every family, with no mention of food
- (B) Shares in the railway and telegraph companies
- (C) Food when herds failed, and clarity about what was promised
- (D) American citizenship for Plains signers only
4.
In 1885, what spreads faster than facts?
- (A) Money
- (B) Railway timetables
- (C) Newspaper comics
- (D) Fear
5.
At Fort Battleford, where are settlers and police?
- (A) Inside the fort palisade; Cree and Assiniboine camp outside
- (B) Camped together in the open with Cree and Assiniboine families, sharing one fire ring
- (C) Gathered only in Ottawa for a summer parliament session
- (D) Already at Batoche before news reached the Battleford country
6.
What does the narration say is clear even when historians argue about looting and orders?
- (A) That no one on either side felt hunger or fear that spring
- (B) That hunger and humiliation were real
- (C) That Fort Battleford was a myth invented by later novelists
- (D) That the whole crisis of 1885 stayed confined to coastal British Columbia
7.
In Cree tradition during fighting, who leads in the field at Cut Knife?
- (A) The treaty commissioner, who negotiates paper promises in the east
- (B) American miners who had never camped near Cut Knife Creek
- (C) Fine Day (Kamiokisihwew), the war chief
- (D) A Hudson’s Bay clerk counting trade goods at a distant post
8.
On May 2, 1885, whose column attacks the sleeping camp?
- (A) A California gold-rush militia marching overland from the coast
- (B) A British naval fleet sailing up the Saskatchewan River
- (C) A lone Métis supply cart with no soldiers escorting it
- (D) Otter’s column—militia and North-West Mounted Police
9.
When Otter’s men retreat, what does the narration say Poundmaker does?
- (A) Stops warriors from riding the retreat into a slaughter
- (B) Orders every fighter to chase and wipe out the retreating column
- (C) Rides east alone and abandons the camp before nightfall
- (D) Surrenders his rifle to Otter on the spot the same hour
10.
On May 26, he goes to Battleford and surrenders to whom?
- (A) William Otter only
- (B) Major-General Middleton
- (C) The United States Army
- (D) A Hudson’s Bay factor alone
11.
The court sentences him to three years where?
- (A) Fort Battleford’s palisade guardhouse for the full term
- (B) A federal prison in San Francisco, California
- (C) Stony Mountain Penitentiary, Manitoba
- (D) Newgate Prison in London, England
12.
According to the narration, what contributed to his early release from prison?
- (A) An immediate, unconditional pardon signed the day after sentencing
- (B) A secret escape plan across the U.S. border with forged papers
- (C) A vow never to speak again in court or to any Crown official
- (D) Ill health, political pressure, and Crowfoot’s concern
13.
What does the narration say Canada did in 2019?
- (A) Formally exonerated him and acknowledged injustice in his conviction
- (B) Issued a decree that the North-West Resistance never happened
- (C) Ordered every Plains reserve closed and its land sold at auction
- (D) Repealed Treaty Six and all numbered treaties west of Ontario