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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the very corrupt tribal president at Pine Ridge?
(a) Albert Ellis.
(b) Graham Brave Bull.
(c) Dennis Albert.
(d) Dick Wilson.

3. Chapter One is titled "A Woman from He-Dog." What is "He-Dog" and where do you find it?
(a) He-Dog is the woman's family name.
(b) He-Dog is a reservation community in South Dakota.
(c) He-Dog is a play on words revealed in the chapter.
(d) He-Dog is a store on the Pine Ridge reservation.

4. What does Mary's Grandpa Moore consider a feast?
(a) Beef.
(b) Turtle stew.
(c) Deer meat.
(d) Antelope.

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

6. What event draws groups of Native Americans from all over the country to Washington, D.C.?
(a) Takeover at Alcatraz.
(b) Pan American Pow Wow.
(c) Trail of Broken Treaties.
(d) March on Washington.

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

8. What causes Mary's mother and grandmother to abandon many traditional ways?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Mission school.
(d) Church.

9. Who says, "Revenge yourself with mind power"?
(a) Mary.
(b) Bonnie.
(c) Leonard.
(d) Barbara.

10. What is the sacred medicine that was the Creator's gift to the Indian people?
(a) Sweet grass.
(b) Agrimony.
(c) Sage.
(d) Peyote.

11. Approximately how many acres are in the Rosebud and Pine Ridge reservations?
(a) Two million.
(b) Three million.
(c) Three hundred thousand.
(d) Eight hundred thousand.

12. What is the best description of the type of book Lakota Woman is?
(a) Historical fiction.
(b) Autobiography.
(c) Suspense.
(d) Current events non-fiction.

13. According to Mary, what family has no shortage of legends?
(a) The Crow Dogs.
(b) The Fool Bulls.
(c) The Brave Bulls.
(d) The Horn Bears.

14. How does Barbara miscarry her baby at the beginning of Chapter Five?
(a) By carrying a heavy pan while working in the kitchen.
(b) Being in a car accident.
(c) Not being able to get to the hospital on time.
(d) Getting into a fight with her mother.

15. Who takes Mary to her first peyote meeting?
(a) Charlie Little Dog.
(b) Elsie Flood.
(c) Grandpa Moore..
(d) Dick Fool Bull.

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. Who does Mary go to in order to "learn to be Indian"?

3. What historic event does Grandpa Fool Bull witness?

4. Why does Mary not want to have her child in a white hospital?

5. Who is Wise?

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