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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What event leads to Mary being given the special name of Ohitika Win (Brave Woman)?
(a) The Second Wounded Knee.
(b) Participating in Sun Dance.
(c) Her grandfather's death.
(d) Her marriage.

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

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

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

6. Two Native American reservations are mentioned in Chapter One. What are they?
(a) Micmac and Pine Ridge.
(b) Navajo and Hopi.
(c) Rosebud and Navajo.
(d) Pine Ridge and Rosebud.

7. What year is AIM born?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1966.

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

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

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

11. What tribe does the late Native American activist, Richard Oakes, belong to?
(a) Sioux.
(b) Mohawk.
(c) Ojibway.
(d) Pawnee.

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

13. Who takes Mary to her first peyote meeting?
(a) Dick Fool Bull.
(b) Charlie Little Dog.
(c) Grandpa Moore..
(d) Elsie Flood.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Sioux peyote garden located?

2. Who is the very corrupt tribal president at Pine Ridge?

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

4. Who repeats, "You must kill the Indian in order to save the man"?

5. What is the sacred medicine that was the Creator's gift to the Indian people?

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