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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 activity is justified as a way of getting a little of their own back?
(a) Drinking alcohol.
(b) Shoplifting.
(c) Stealing cars.
(d) Taking drugs.

2. Who tells a judge, "Peyote is my lawyer"?
(a) Leonard Crow Dog.
(b) Russell Means.
(c) Grandpa Fool Bull.
(d) Mary Brave Bird.

3. Who are the helpless ones, according to Chapter Two?
(a) Alcoholics.
(b) People from Pine Ridge.
(c) Those living in poverty.
(d) Elderly and children.

4. Who is stabbed by a white man in Chapter Eight?
(a) Russ Fools Bull.
(b) Wesley Bad Heart Bull.
(c) Barbara Brave Bird.
(d) Leonard Crow Dog.

5. Why does Mary receive 25 swats with a paddle when she is thirteen?
(a) She refused to go to Mass because she didn't feel well.
(b) She talked back to a nun.
(c) She ran away.
(d) She held hands with a boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary's Grandpa Moore consider a feast?

2. In Chapter Two, what happens to Mary's uncles?

3. What are winter counts?

4. What is the sacred medicine that was the Creator's gift to the Indian people?

5. What causes Mary's mother and grandmother to abandon many traditional ways?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the peyote plant.

2. Describe Old Grandpa Fool Bull.

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

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

5. Describe Mary's aunt, Elsie Flood.

6. Describe the dream the author experienced two weeks after her first peyote meeting.

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

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

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

10. What attempts were made to destroy Indian religion, according to Chapter Seven?

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