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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the holy man came back to earth in the story of the ghost dance, he began to teach the people a dance. How many songs did he have?
(a) Five.
(b) Eight.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

2. How much did the Indian who had lost a leg in an industrial accident receive in insurance money?
(a) Five thousand dollars.
(b) Twelve thousand dollars.
(c) Ten thousand dollars.
(d) Fifteen thousand dollars.

3. What did Ziolkowski say he wanted to do for the Indians?
(a) He said he wanted to paint Mount Rushmore in horrible colors.
(b) He said he wanted to stop work on Mount Rushmore.
(c) He said that he wanted to dedicate his work to Lame Deer.
(d) He said he wanted to put up a giant statue of Crazy Horse.

4. When Richard was driving through the plains on his first encounter with the American West, what were the houses surrounded by?
(a) Cattle fields.
(b) Barron land.
(c) Wheat fields.
(d) Corn fields.

5. Lame Deer described the prayer he usually said when he was crying for a vision. He asked the Great Spirit to pity him so that what may occur?
(a) The land might grow.
(b) The white people will learn.
(c) He might receive his vision.
(d) His people may live.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of Chapter 8, Lame Deer tells a big secret that he just wants to whisper and doesn't dare say aloud. What is this secret?

2. One clown was called Heyoka Osni which means what?

3. What was the reason that Indians drank according to Lame Deer?

4. In the tale of the Stone Boy, when Stone Boy goes out to find his uncles he starts out in the morning and in the evening he smells what?

5. What does the word inipi mean?

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