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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 serves as defense coordinators for Leonard Crow Dog's appeal?
(a) Ken Tilsen.
(b) Richard Erdoes and his wife, Jean.
(c) Bill Kunstler.
(d) Sandy Rosen.

2. How old was Leonard Crow Dog when his spiritual gifts were first noticed?
(a) Five years old.
(b) Ten years old.
(c) Fourteen years old.
(d) Eight years old.

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

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

5. Where do Leonard and Mary meet?
(a) Wounded Knee.
(b) Rapid City protest.
(c) Sun Dance.
(d) Rosebud Fair and Rodeo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the dancers at Sun Dance dance around?

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

3. In Chapter Thirteen, the author mentions people involved with Indian Rights who died. Who led the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization (OSCRO) and was shot by tribal police?

4. How does one ask for a yuwipi ceremony?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Mary admire about her friend, Annie Mae?

2. What is going on around Mary while she is giving birth?

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

4. What happened to the Sun Dance in 1883?

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. What leads up to Mary becoming Leonard's wife?

10. What does Leonard Crow Dog compare the Bicentennial to?

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