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

2. How many kids are in Mary's family?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

3. What does Mary spend $99.99 on in Chapter Eight?
(a) Dishes.
(b) An imitation Persian rug.
(c) Beads.
(d) Asian food while in New York.

4. According to a sign in Chapter Eight, what town has "gunsmoke flavor"?
(a) Custer.
(b) Cheyenne.
(c) Rapid City.
(d) Aberdeen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is telling the story in Chapter One?

2. What causes Mary's mother and grandmother to abandon many traditional ways?

3. Who is stabbed by a white man in Chapter Eight?

4. There are two major divisions among the Sioux. What are they?

5. What is an iyeska?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Old Grandpa Fool Bull.

3. Explain the tribal divisions among the Sioux people.

4. Describe Mary's aunt, Elsie Flood.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Explain why no one Mary knows saves money in Chapter Two.

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