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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blood Turned Into Stone.

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 take his grandfather's name.
(b) He needed to tell his family about the horrible truths of the white man.
(c) He needed to seek revenge on the white man.
(d) He needed to be a medicine man.

2. What is the name of the the spider-man in Sioux legend?
(a) Wakan.
(b) Mawani.
(c) Iktome.
(d) Gougla.

3. Lame Deer states that many white men think that the sun dance is an initiation of what?
(a) Of a young man growing into manhood.
(b) Of a man and a woman growing together in love.
(c) Of a warrior ready to kill for the first time.
(d) Of a old medicine man passing on his power to a younger medicine man.

4. What did the smoke rising from the pipe represent?
(a) Breath.
(b) The eyes.
(c) Fog.
(d) The lungs.

5. How old was Lame Deer when his mother died?
(a) 12.
(b) 17.
(c) 18.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the large pool of blood turn into?

2. What did a heyoka ceremony start with?

3. When the White Buffalo walked away from the tribe, what was she doing?

4. What did the Indians name "holy dog"?

5. Lame Deer mentions a special kind of deer called the taha topta sapa which had a black streak across what?

(see the answer key)

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