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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is telling the story in Chapter One?

2. How tall is Mary?

3. What legislation passes in 1934 that focuses on Indian government?

4. In Chapter Seven, who finds the chief peyote?

5. Which of the following celebrities is not mentioned as a supporter of AIM?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the peyote plant.

2. Describe Indian boarding schools from "Lakota Woman."

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

4. What did Mary live while her husband was in the maximum-security prison in Lewisburg? How did she spend her time?

5. Why did the Rosebud people not play a big part at battles like Little Big Horn?

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

7. What attempts were made to destroy Indian religion, according to Chapter Seven?

8. Explain why no one Mary knows saves money in Chapter Two.

9. Why was the author successful during her shoplifting days?

10. What did Mary received from her grandmother's older sister, Mary, and her husband?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Does becoming a mother change Mary? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the events of the siege of Wounded Knee.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter Two, the Sioux practice of tiyospaye is introduced and described as the center of the old Sioux society. Explain what tiyospaye is and how it has changed.

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