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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-9: The Circle and the Square; Talking to the Owls and Butterflies; Two in a Blanket; Medicine Good and Bad.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lame Deer know he needed to do after he saw his grandfather with blood dripping from his chest?
(a) He needed to be a medicine man.
(b) He needed to take his grandfather's name.
(c) He needed to seek revenge on the white man.
(d) He needed to tell his family about the horrible truths of the white man.

2. What was the name for men who dressed like women?
(a) Symbife.
(b) Tanka.
(c) Montmack.
(d) Winktes.

3. In Chapter 7, Pete Catches talks about his sister eating what animal's heart?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Turtle.
(c) Dove.
(d) Wolf.

4. Lame Deer told a reporter that he would like to plant a staff on the very top of Mount Rushmore to make it a sacred mountain again. What colors would be on the staff?
(a) Red and yellow.
(b) Black and green.
(c) Black and red.
(d) Yellow and green.

5. What does the word hanhepiwi mean?
(a) Sun.
(b) Heavens.
(c) Moon.
(d) Stars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Sioux word wincincalas mean?

2. According to Lame Deer, what was the name of the greatest of all the Sioux?

3. Lame Deer talks about an old white man that invited him and his friend into his cellar to drink and play cards. Lame Deer said that this bootlegger was so drunk he couldn't do what?

4. Richard Erdoes tells Lame Deer that good art cannot be made with what?

5. How many guns are there in the Museum of the American Indian in New York City that once belonged to famous Indian chiefs?

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