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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. Where does Mary's skin sacrifice go?
(a) Into a fire.
(b) Into a red bundle, tied to a sacred pipe.
(c) Into a medicine bag.
(d) Around her neck.

2. What do the dancers at Sun Dance dance around?
(a) Sacred tree.
(b) Fire.
(c) The head of the Sun Dance.
(d) Sacred pole.

3. What famous Indian is the first Crow Dog friends with?
(a) Chief Joseph.
(b) Sitting Bull.
(c) Geronimo.
(d) Crazy Horse.

4. What do the FBI shoot and kill when they raid the Crow Dogs?
(a) Leonard's dog.
(b) Leonard's horse.
(c) Leonard's nephew.
(d) Leonard's ceremonial hut.

5. What is one of the oldest Sioux rituals using rocks?
(a) Ghost Dance.
(b) Sweat Bath.
(c) Yuwipi.
(d) Sun Dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to a Sioux proverb in Chapter Twelve, what is a good mother like?

2. Who is the ex-marine Vietnam vet who is shot through the heart at Wounded Knee?

3. What does Crow Dog call the abuses from the men who worked at the prisons?

4. What incident leads to Mary leaving a week before the siege ends?

5. In what year did the first Crow Dog win a case in the Supreme Court?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the trading post store.

2. What events led to Judge Robert Merhige to release Crow Dog for time served?

3. What happens to Mary and her child as they leave Wounded Knee?

4. Describe the changes in the Crow Dog family in the epilogue.

5. Summarize what happens to Leonard Crow Dog's traditional style of wearing his hair while in prison.

6. What was the purpose of the Ghost Dance?

7. What was the attitude toward Mary, who was quite pregnant at the time of the siege at Wounded Knee?

8. Why do the Crow Dogs believe they are cursed?

9. Describe Barbara's living situation in Chapter Sixteen.

10. Explain the points where Mary disagreed with the feminists who had supported her.

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