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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How old is Mary when her mother remarries?
(a) Nine or ten.
(b) One or two.
(c) Five or six.
(d) A teenager.

4. Why does Mary receive 25 swats with a paddle when she is thirteen?
(a) She held hands with a boy.
(b) She ran away.
(c) She talked back to a nun.
(d) She refused to go to Mass because she didn't feel well.

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

6. What is pejuta sapa, mentioned in Chapter Five?
(a) Bread.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Sweet.

7. In Chapter One, what procedure is discussed that was commonly performed on Indian women without their permission?
(a) Tonsillectomy.
(b) Oral surgery.
(c) Appendectomy.
(d) Hysterectomy.

8. In Chapter Two, who raises Mary and her siblings?
(a) Cousins.
(b) Grandparents.
(c) Aunt.
(d) Mother.

9. When the author leaves Custer in Chapter Eight, what does the bumper sticker on her car say?
(a) Custer had it coming.
(b) Custer died for your sins.
(c) Red Power.
(d) Custer was Sioux'd.

10. According to Chapter Seven, what unites the different Indian nations?
(a) AIM.
(b) Sun Dance.
(c) Vision quests.
(d) Peyote.

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

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

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

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) Getting into a fight with her mother.
(c) Being in a car accident.
(d) Not being able to get to the hospital on time.

15. What legislation passes in 1934 that focuses on Indian government?
(a) Indian Civil Rights Act.
(b) American Indian Religious Freedom Act.
(c) Indian Reorganization Act.
(d) Dawes Act.

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall is Mary?

2. In Chapter Seven, who finds the chief peyote?

3. What is an iyeska?

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

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

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