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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. In Chapter Two, who raises Mary and her siblings?
(a) Aunt.
(b) Grandparents.
(c) Cousins.
(d) Mother.

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

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

4. What is Cankpe Opi Wakpala?
(a) A warrior society.
(b) Spiritual medicine.
(c) Wounded Knee creek.
(d) A siege.

5. In Chapter Three, what is the author referring to when she says, "The first shock is always there"?
(a) White racism.
(b) The effect of Indian boarding schools.
(c) Leaving the reservation.
(d) Coming to the reservation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Crow Dog family join in 1918 or 1920?

2. Who is Wise?

3. What is an iyeska?

4. What are winter counts?

5. In the old days, where do the heads of households keep ration cards?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Explain the tribal divisions among the Sioux people.

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

6. How was Mary Brave Bird honored after having her baby during the siege of Wounded Knee?

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

8. Describe Mary's aunt, Elsie Flood.

9. What problems do Plains men face, according to Mary in Chapter One?

10. Describe the last peyote meeting that the author attended with Grandpa Dick Fool Bull.

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