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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does AIM stand for?
(a) American Indian Mothers.
(b) Taking a true AIM against the white society.
(c) Association of Indian Moral.
(d) American Indian Movement.

3. What is the name of the boarding school that the author attends?
(a) Rosebud.
(b) St. Francis.
(c) Chilocco.
(d) St. Xavier.

4. According to the author, what town is considered by many Native Americans to be the most racist town in the U.S.?
(a) Birmingham.
(b) Kansas City.
(c) Custer.
(d) Rapid City.

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

6. Who are the helpless ones, according to Chapter Two?
(a) People from Pine Ridge.
(b) Elderly and children.
(c) Those living in poverty.
(d) Alcoholics.

7. Who says, "Kill 'em all, big and small, nits make lice"?
(a) Colonel Chivington.
(b) General Custer.
(c) Spotted Tail.
(d) Major McDougall.

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

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

10. What year does the first Wounded Knee occur?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1888.

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

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

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

14. What feathers are Henry Crow Dog's fan made of?
(a) Macaw.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Magpie.
(d) Hawk.

15. 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?
(a) Mother and aunt.
(b) Best friend and sister-in law.
(c) Sister and acquaintance.
(d) Cousin and friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times does Mary see her birth father by Chapter Two?

2. According to Chapter Seven, what unites the different Indian nations?

3. What does Mary spend $99.99 on in Chapter Eight?

4. What year is AIM born?

5. Who or what does the author blame for the "Indian drinking problem"?

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