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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. How many items are on the list on the poster given to Mary's grandfather by missionaries?
(a) Five.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Ten.
(d) Three.

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

3. What is the significance of an upside down flag for Native Americans?
(a) It's a truce symbol.
(b) It's a message of anger.
(c) It's meant to be a sign of disrespect.
(d) It's a distress call.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What event leads to Mary being given the special name of Ohitika Win (Brave Woman)?

2. Who is Wise?

3. During the author's first Native American Church meeting as a girl, how many times does she receive the medicine?

4. Who does Mary go to in order to "learn to be Indian"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the houses in the reservation towns from Chapter Four.

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

4. Explain the tribal divisions among the Sioux people.

5. Describe the dream the author experienced two weeks after her first peyote meeting.

6. Describe the type of relationship that the author had with her mother in Chapter Five.

7. Although Mary grew up in poverty, she indicates she was happier before she had to go to boarding school. Explain why.

8. Describe Indian boarding schools from "Lakota Woman."

9. Describe the incident that led to Mary leaving boarding school permanently.

10. Why will Mary's mother and grandmother not teacher her how to speak the Sioux language?

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