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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the author call the towns of Parmelee, St. Francis, and Mission in Chapter Four?
(a) Drunk towns.
(b) Rez towns.
(c) Redneck towns.
(d) Fun towns.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Mary when her mother remarries?

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

3. 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?

4. What is an iyeska?

5. Where are many of the nuns from at the boarding school in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the peyote plant.

2. Describe Old Grandpa Fool Bull.

3. Why was the author successful during her shoplifting days?

4. Explain what the Indian Reorganization Act meant for Native Americans.

5. How did Mary spend her time after she quit school?

6. Where was Mary's first encounter with AIM?

7. Describe the Indian marriages of Chapter Six.

8. What happened at home when Mary quit school?

9. Describe the beginning of AIM.

10. Why did the Rosebud people not play a big part at battles like Little Big Horn?

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