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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. When the author leaves Custer in Chapter Eight, what does the bumper sticker on her car say?

2. What event draws groups of Native Americans from all over the country to Washington, D.C.?

3. What work does Grandpa Moore do?

4. According to a sign in Chapter Eight, what town has "gunsmoke flavor"?

5. Who is the very corrupt tribal president at Pine Ridge?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how the trading posts operated as described in Chapter Five.

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

3. Why does Mary say that it is hard being an Indian woman?

4. Why will Mary's mother and grandmother not teacher her how to speak the Sioux language?

5. Describe the houses in the reservation towns from Chapter Four.

6. According to Chapter Three, who runs the boarding school that the author attended?

7. What happened at home when Mary quit school?

8. Describe the last peyote meeting that the author attended with Grandpa Dick Fool Bull.

9. Describe the peyote plant.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of women at Wounded Knee and whether they were treated as second-class citizens.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Mary's need to have her baby at Wounded Knee.

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