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

2. Where is Mary in Chapter Four when her husband is beat up and her child is almost hit by a bullet?
(a) Washington State.
(b) Capital of South Dakota.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Wounded Knee.

3. How old is Mary when her mother remarries?
(a) Nine or ten.
(b) A teenager.
(c) Five or six.
(d) One or two.

4. In Chapter Seven, who finds the chief peyote?
(a) Barbara.
(b) Mary.
(c) Henry.
(d) Leonard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Two, who raises Mary and her siblings?

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

3. What feathers are Henry Crow Dog's fan made of?

4. According to the author, who makes up the AIM song?

5. Who is Ira Hayes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the peyote plant.

2. Describe the beginning of AIM.

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

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

5. Describe Mary's aunt, Elsie Flood.

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

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

8. According to Chapter Three, who runs the boarding school that the author attended?

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

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

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