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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, who makes up the AIM song?
(a) A middle-aged Ojibway woman.
(b) A 14-year-old Sioux boy.
(c) Leonard Crow Dog.
(d) Russell Means.

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

3. Who says, "You hate those most whom you have injured most"?
(a) Dennis Banks, an AIM leader.
(b) Angela Davis, a revolutionary.
(c) Bill Kunstler, a lawyer.
(d) Lizzy Fast Horse, a grandmother.

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

5. According to a sign in Chapter Eight, what town has "gunsmoke flavor"?
(a) Rapid City.
(b) Cheyenne.
(c) Custer.
(d) Aberdeen.

6. Who repeats, "You must kill the Indian in order to save the man"?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Missionaries.
(c) Federal agents.
(d) Army.

7. Who is Wise?
(a) A reservation friend.
(b) A hippie or Yippie from New York.
(c) A boy who was passing through Rosebud.
(d) One of the students at the boarding school.

8. 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 play on words revealed in the chapter.
(c) He-Dog is a reservation community in South Dakota.
(d) He-Dog is a store on the Pine Ridge reservation.

9. What historic event does Grandpa Fool Bull witness?
(a) Little Big Horn.
(b) Mary's birth.
(c) The first Wounded Knee.
(d) The Trail of Tears.

10. What is the "Red Panther"?
(a) A student newspaper that the author was involved in.
(b) A book.
(c) A Native American protest group.
(d) A group of students at the boarding school.

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

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

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

14. In Chapter Four, where are you likely to see a sign that says, "No Indians and Dogs Allowed"?
(a) South Dakota department stores.
(b) South Dakota saloons.
(c) South Dakota bus stations.
(d) South Dakota government buildings.

15. What does the Crow Dog family join in 1918 or 1920?
(a) Indian rights movement.
(b) Rosebud Reservation.
(c) Native American church.
(d) Medicine men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What training does Mary's mother receive for her job?

2. Who tells a judge, "Peyote is my lawyer"?

3. What feathers are Henry Crow Dog's fan made of?

4. Who says, "We are the Old Indians, the landlords of this continent, coming to collect the rent"?

5. Who are the helpless ones, according to Chapter Two?

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