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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the best description of the type of book Lakota Woman is?
(a) Autobiography.
(b) Suspense.
(c) Current events non-fiction.
(d) Historical fiction.

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

3. Who is the very corrupt tribal president at Pine Ridge?
(a) Dennis Albert.
(b) Graham Brave Bull.
(c) Dick Wilson.
(d) Albert Ellis.

4. What American city does AIM begin in?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Denver.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) St. Paul.

5. In Chapter Five, whose drug of choice is LSD?
(a) Mary.
(b) Bonnie.
(c) Anna Mae.
(d) Barbara.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what town is considered by many Native Americans to be the most racist town in the U.S.?

2. What work does Grandpa Moore do?

3. Where does Mary go to school as a child?

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

5. According to the author, who makes up the AIM song?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened at home when Mary quit school?

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

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

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

6. How was Mary Brave Bird honored after having her baby during the siege of Wounded Knee?

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

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

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

10. Describe the type of relationship that the author had with her mother in Chapter Five.

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