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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In the old days, where do the heads of households keep ration cards?
(a) In their pocket.
(b) The heads of households had no ration cards.
(c) A beaded pouch around the neck.
(d) In a place of honor in the home.

6. What work does Grandpa Moore do?
(a) Truck driver.
(b) Tribal policeman.
(c) Janitor.
(d) Grandpa Moore has no job.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Chapter Two begins with what?
(a) Hopi song.
(b) Ghost Dance song.
(c) Cheyenne proverb.
(d) Words from a young man from Eagle Butte.

13. According to the author in Chapter Seven, what is the movement for Native American rights first a movement about?
(a) Spiritual rights.
(b) Political rights.
(c) Legal rights.
(d) Economic rights.

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

15. Who does Mary's sister bail out of jail in Chapter Four?
(a) Poor Bear.
(b) Annie Mae.
(c) Mary.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "You hate those most whom you have injured most"?

2. What year is AIM born?

3. How old is the author when she first drinks alcohol?

4. Chapter One is titled "A Woman from He-Dog." What is "He-Dog" and where do you find it?

5. How many kids are in Mary's family?

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