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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. What are Leonard's sons called?

2. Who says, "Purify them, don't cook them"?

3. What color is Mary's new home painted?

4. What do the dancers at Sun Dance dance around?

5. Who is Bob Free at Wounded Knee?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the points where Mary disagreed with the feminists who had supported her.

2. 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?

3. Where did Annie Mae first meet people from AIM?

4. What happened to the Sun Dance in 1883?

5. What led to Leonard Crow Dog's second breakdown while in prison?

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

7. What was the attitude toward Mary, who was quite pregnant at the time of the siege at Wounded Knee?

8. Describe the changes in the Crow Dog family in the epilogue.

9. What is going on around Mary while she is giving birth?

10. What leads up to Mary becoming Leonard's wife?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mary ends the first chapter by talking about her husband's family history. She states, "So, if my own family lacks history, that of my husband more than makes up for it." Compare and contrast Mary's family history with that of the Leonard Crow Dog.

Essay Topic 2

The first chapter of Lakota Woman starts with a Cheyenne proverb: "A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is done, no matter how brave its warriors nor how strong their weapons." The narrator also refers to this proverb later in the chapter. How does this proverb relate to this book?

Essay Topic 3

Why was the government threatened by Annie Mae Aquash? Who do you believe killed her?

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