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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seven, Crying for a Dream; Chapter Eight, Cankpe Opi Wakpala.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mary receive 25 swats with a paddle when she is thirteen?
(a) She held hands with a boy.
(b) She talked back to a nun.
(c) She ran away.
(d) She refused to go to Mass because she didn't feel well.

2. How many items are on the list on the poster given to Mary's grandfather by missionaries?
(a) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Twelve.

3. In Chapter Five, whose drug of choice is LSD?
(a) Bonnie.
(b) Anna Mae.
(c) Mary.
(d) Barbara.

4. When the author leaves Custer in Chapter Eight, what does the bumper sticker on her car say?
(a) Custer died for your sins.
(b) Custer was Sioux'd.
(c) Red Power.
(d) Custer had it coming.

5. Why does Mary not want to have her child in a white hospital?
(a) Because of the large number of forced sterilizations.
(b) Because of fear of white medicine.
(c) Because Barbara's baby died after two hours.
(d) Because she was afraid the baby would be taken from her.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter One, the narrator speaks of two women being found dead in the snow, Annie Mae and Delphine. Who are these women to the narrator?

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

3. Where is the Sioux peyote garden located?

4. Who says, "Revenge yourself with mind power"?

5. In the old days, where do the heads of households keep ration cards?

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