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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 did White Buffalo Woman bring to the Sioux?
(a) Herbs.
(b) Healing roots.
(c) Buffalo.
(d) Sacred pipe.

2. Who are Beck and McClosky?
(a) Friends.
(b) AIM leaders.
(c) Two drunk men who charge Crow Dog with assault.
(d) Federal officers.

3. Who does Leonard Crow Dog perform spiritual ceremonies with at Wounded Knee?
(a) Dennis Banks.
(b) Russell Means.
(c) Merle Left Hand Bull.
(d) Wallace Black Elk.

4. Who is the Oglala holy man who dies about 50 years before the second Wounded Knee?
(a) Yellow Robe.
(b) Kicking Bird.
(c) Black Elk.
(d) Good Thunder.

5. Who says, "I am the last genuine aborigine left"?
(a) Wallace Black Elk.
(b) Leonard Crow Dog.
(c) Henry Crow Dog.
(d) Uncle Bill Eagle Feathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ptesan Win?

2. Who says, "Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force"?

3. Where does Leonard's great-grandfather hold a Ghost Dance in 1890?

4. Who is accused of shooting and killing two federal officers and later convicted of the crime?

5. Who makes a Wounded Knee patch for Mary's child?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the first Crow Dog get his name, according to the stories that Henry Crow Dog tells Mary?

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

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

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

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

8. Describe Annie Mae's childhood.

9. How is a yuwipi ceremony prepared for?

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

(see the answer keys)

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