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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. Who is the intercessor at Mary's first Sun Dance?
(a) Uncle Bill Eagle Feathers.
(b) Wallace Black Elk.
(c) Leonard.
(d) Henry Crow Dog.

2. Who is the ex-marine Vietnam vet who is shot through the heart at Wounded Knee?
(a) Frank Clearwater.
(b) Dennis Wilson.
(c) Morning Star.
(d) Buddy Lamont.

3. What does the only white man's home with heat and running tap water in Pine Ridge become during the siege?
(a) Security office.
(b) Community hall.
(c) Kitchen.
(d) Hospital.

4. Who says, "Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force"?
(a) Leonard Peltier.
(b) Leonard Crow Dog.
(c) Anna Mae.
(d) Mary.

5. What are Leonard's sons called?
(a) Leonard and Mike.
(b) Richard and Quanah.
(c) Bobby and Jack.
(d) Richard and Steve.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Mary that she is the water and the corn?

2. Who serves as defense coordinators for Leonard Crow Dog's appeal?

3. When did the Sun Dance come out into the open again?

4. What color is Mary's new home painted?

5. Mary is one of two pregnant women at Wounded Knee. Who is the other?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the buildings used after Wounded Knee ends?

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

3. What was the purpose of the Ghost Dance?

4. Where did Crow Dog talk to Mary about Sioux legends and what was involved in being a medicine man and the wife of a medicine man?

5. How is a yuwipi ceremony prepared for?

6. Where did Annie Mae first meet people from AIM?

7. What led to Leonard Crow Dog's second breakdown while in prison?

8. What was First Woman given the power to do?

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

10. When Crow Dog is released from prison the first time, he goes to New York with friends, but has trouble sleeping. Mentally, he feels like he's still in prison. What changes?

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