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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eleven, Birth Giving; Chapter Twelve, Sioux and Elephants Never Forget.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Ira Hayes?
(a) One of the BIA employees who talked to AIM.
(b) A Pima man who won the Congressional Medal of Honor.
(c) One of the protestors in Washington, D.C.
(d) A Native American Congressman.

3. What are winter counts?
(a) The number of people living in a place in a specific winter.
(b) A record of buffalo killed.
(c) Pictures on buffalo skin that tell stories.
(d) A list of people who die.

4. Who tells a judge, "Peyote is my lawyer"?
(a) Grandpa Fool Bull.
(b) Russell Means.
(c) Leonard Crow Dog.
(d) Mary Brave Bird.

5. Where is Mary in Chapter Four when her husband is beat up and her child is almost hit by a bullet?
(a) Capital of South Dakota.
(b) Washington State.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Wounded Knee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Leonard's great-grandfather hold a Ghost Dance in 1890?

2. In Chapter Two, what does Mary's family make tea from?

3. What is the best description of the type of book Lakota Woman is?

4. What event leads to Mary being given the special name of Ohitika Win (Brave Woman)?

5. Chapter Two begins with what?

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