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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the sacred medicine that was the Creator's gift to the Indian people?
(a) Sweet grass.
(b) Peyote.
(c) Agrimony.
(d) Sage.

2. What training does Mary's mother receive for her job?
(a) Business school training.
(b) Nurse training.
(c) Teacher training.
(d) Government worker training.

3. What does Mary's grandmother tell her never to do in Chapter Two?
(a) Never go into white peoples' homes.
(b) Never be ashamed of where she came from.
(c) Never tell a lie.
(d) Never to talk to a white person.

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 play on words revealed in the chapter.
(b) He-Dog is a reservation community in South Dakota.
(c) He-Dog is a store on the Pine Ridge reservation.
(d) He-Dog is the woman's family name.

5. Who does Mary give a bloody nose to in Chapter Three?
(a) One of the nuns.
(b) A girl in her dorm at school.
(c) A boy at the school.
(d) A new English teacher/priest.

6. What are winter counts?
(a) Pictures on buffalo skin that tell stories.
(b) A record of buffalo killed.
(c) A list of people who die.
(d) The number of people living in a place in a specific winter.

7. According to the author, what town is considered by many Native Americans to be the most racist town in the U.S.?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) Custer.
(c) Rapid City.
(d) Birmingham.

8. How many kids are in Mary's family?
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

9. What causes Mary's mother and grandmother to abandon many traditional ways?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Mission school.
(c) Church.
(d) Marriage.

10. Who is Wise?
(a) A boy who was passing through Rosebud.
(b) One of the students at the boarding school.
(c) A reservation friend.
(d) A hippie or Yippie from New York.

11. What year is AIM born?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1971.

12. Who does Mary's sister bail out of jail in Chapter Four?
(a) Poor Bear.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Mary.
(d) Annie Mae.

13. How tall is Mary?
(a) Five and a half feet.
(b) Under five feet.
(c) Not much over five feet tall.
(d) Over five foot, six inches.

14. Why does Mary not want to have her child in a white hospital?
(a) Because Barbara's baby died after two hours.
(b) Because she was afraid the baby would be taken from her.
(c) Because of fear of white medicine.
(d) Because of the large number of forced sterilizations.

15. Who runs the boarding school while Mary attends?
(a) The Lakota.
(b) South Dakota Public Schools.
(c) The BIA.
(d) The Sisters of the Sacred Heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feathers are Henry Crow Dog's fan made of?

2. What does AIM stand for?

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

4. Approximately how many acres are in the Rosebud and Pine Ridge reservations?

5. In Chapter Two, who raises Mary and her siblings?

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