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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three, Civilize Them with a Stick; Chapter Four, Drinking and Fighting.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Mary go to in order to "learn to be Indian"?
(a) Grandpa Moore.
(b) Her great aunt Mary.
(c) Crow Dogs.
(d) School friends raised traditionally.

2. How many times does Mary see her birth father by Chapter Two?
(a) Twice.
(b) Once.
(c) Never.
(d) Three times.

3. What year does the first Wounded Knee occur?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1888.

4. Chapter One is titled "A Woman from He-Dog." What is "He-Dog" and where do you find it?
(a) He-Dog is a store on the Pine Ridge reservation.
(b) He-Dog is the woman's family name.
(c) He-Dog is a reservation community in South Dakota.
(d) He-Dog is a play on words revealed in the chapter.

5. There are two major divisions among the Sioux. What are they?
(a) Reservation and non-reservation.
(b) Pine Ridge and Rosebud.
(c) Northern and Southern.
(d) Lakota and Dakota.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are many of the nuns from at the boarding school in Chapter Three?

2. How old is the author when she first drinks alcohol?

3. Who says, "Revenge yourself with mind power"?

4. How many kids are in Mary's family?

5. Who repeats, "You must kill the Indian in order to save the man"?

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