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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two, Invisible Fathers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Two, what happens to Mary's uncles?
(a) They catch TB and die.
(b) They are killed by soldiers.
(c) They are jailed.
(d) They die in infancy.

2. Where does Mary go to school as a child?
(a) An out-of-state boarding school.
(b) Public school.
(c) St. Francis Boarding School.
(d) Reservation day school.

3. What year does the first Wounded Knee occur?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1899.

4. What is an iyeska?
(a) A teenager.
(b) Someone who is both white and Native American.
(c) Someone belonging to the Lakota Nation.
(d) A Native American woman.

5. What does Mary's grandmother tell her never to do in Chapter Two?
(a) Never be ashamed of where she came from.
(b) Never go into white peoples' homes.
(c) Never tell a lie.
(d) Never to talk to a white person.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Two, the center of the old Sioux society is tiyospaye. What is tiyospaye?

2. Chapter One is titled "A Woman from He-Dog." What is "He-Dog" and where do you find it?

3. What training does Mary's mother receive for her job?

4. What causes Mary's mother and grandmother to abandon many traditional ways?

5. Who repeats, "You must kill the Indian in order to save the man"?

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