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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What training does Mary's mother receive for her job?
(a) Business school training.
(b) Nurse training.
(c) Government worker training.
(d) Teacher training.

2. During the author's first Native American Church meeting as a girl, how many times does she receive the medicine?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

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

4. Who or what does the author blame for the "Indian drinking problem"?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Racism.
(c) Loss of spirituality.
(d) White men.

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

6. Who does Mary give a bloody nose to in Chapter Three?
(a) One of the nuns.
(b) A boy at the school.
(c) A new English teacher/priest.
(d) A girl in her dorm at school.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. In Chapter Two, what happens to Mary's uncles?
(a) They die in infancy.
(b) They are jailed.
(c) They catch TB and die.
(d) They are killed by soldiers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to a sign in Chapter Eight, what town has "gunsmoke flavor"?

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

4. Which of the following celebrities is not mentioned as a supporter of AIM?

5. What is the name of the Seattle bar on Skid Row that the author mentions in Chapter Four?

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