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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. Where is the Sioux peyote garden located?
(a) Southern Mexico.
(b) Southwest.
(c) Black Hills.
(d) Canada.

2. In Sioux traditional births, what is placed in the center of a tipi?
(a) Sweet grass.
(b) Sage.
(c) Waist high cottonwood stick.
(d) Sacred pipe.

3. Who says that the hoop has not been broken in Chapter Ten?
(a) Leonard Crow Dog.
(b) Russell Means.
(c) Wallace Black Elk.
(d) Mary.

4. Where does Leonard's great-grandfather hold a Ghost Dance in 1890?
(a) Mission.
(b) St. Francis.
(c) Parmelee.
(d) Wounded Knee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the author's first Native American Church meeting as a girl, how many times does she receive the medicine?

2. Approximately how many acres are in the Rosebud and Pine Ridge reservations?

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

4. Who takes Mary to her first peyote meeting?

5. According to a Sioux proverb in Chapter Twelve, what is a good mother like?

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