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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Thirteen, Two Cut-Off Hands; Chapter Fourteen, Cante Ishta - The Eye of the Heart.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tribe does the late Native American activist, Richard Oakes, belong to?
(a) Ojibway.
(b) Sioux.
(c) Pawnee.
(d) Mohawk.

2. Who does Mary go to in order to "learn to be Indian"?
(a) Her great aunt Mary.
(b) School friends raised traditionally.
(c) Crow Dogs.
(d) Grandpa Moore.

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

4. There are two major divisions among the Sioux. What are they?
(a) Lakota and Dakota.
(b) Reservation and non-reservation.
(c) Northern and Southern.
(d) Pine Ridge and Rosebud.

5. Who or what does the author blame for the "Indian drinking problem"?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Racism.
(c) White men.
(d) Loss of spirituality.

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall is Mary?

2. Who does Annie Mae marry in the Indian way and take the name of?

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

4. Two Native American reservations are mentioned in Chapter One. What are they?

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

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