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

2. What do many Ghost Dance dancers wrap themselves up with in the 19th century?

3. What does Mary name her baby?

4. In Chapter Sixteen, what are the names of Leonard's daughters?

5. Who does Annie Mae marry in the Indian way and take the name of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is a yuwipi ceremony prepared for?

3. Explain who Charles and Robert were from Chapter Nine.

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

5. 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?

6. Explain all that Leonard Crow Dog did at Wounded Knee in 1973.

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

8. What causes Mary's breakdown and how is she healed?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the effects of the Indian Reorganization Act on Native Americans, both the advantages and the disadvantages. What is the author's opinion of the Indian Reorganization Act?

Essay Topic 2

Describe how AIM changed Mary Brave Bird's life. Include both positive and negative influences. In your opinion, did AIM help Mary or not?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze what changes Mary goes through in marrying Leonard Crow Dog.

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