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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the tale about the Stone Boy, what does the young girl swallow?
(a) A boy.
(b) A horse.
(c) A stone.
(d) An arrow.

2. How many guns are there in the Museum of the American Indian in New York City that once belonged to famous Indian chiefs?
(a) Four or five.
(b) Eight or nine.
(c) Six or seven.
(d) Five or six.

3. What was the word that the Sioux tribe used for the stone god?
(a) Mosaken.
(b) Cheyne.
(c) Tunkan.
(d) Wagmuha.

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

5. In Chapter 12, Lame Deer talks about one thing that made him sad, that the town of Winner was surrounded on all sides by what?
(a) Fences.
(b) White cattle ranchers.
(c) Gates and locks.
(d) Boundry lines.

6. Lame Deer states that their tribe's oldest lady had a face like what?
(a) The wrinkled sheet.
(b) The rock covered mountains.
(c) The Badlands.
(d) Rippled water.

7. How many horses did Lame Deer's father have?
(a) Over three hundred.
(b) Over three hundred and fifty.
(c) Over two hundred.
(d) Over two hundred and fifty.

8. What was the reason that Indians drank according to Lame Deer?
(a) To forget.
(b) To remember.
(c) To hold on.
(d) To be more like the white man.

9. 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) Black and green.
(b) Yellow and green.
(c) Red and yellow.
(d) Black and red.

10. One way for young folks to get together was for the girl to stand outside her family's tipi with what?
(a) A peace pipe.
(b) A buffalo skull.
(c) A bowl of stew.
(d) A big blanket.

11. What animal does Lame Deer mention in Chapter 7 that is much like an Indian because it's unchangeable?
(a) A buffalo.
(b) A cat.
(c) A bear.
(d) A wolf.

12. To protect their daughters from tipi-creepers, what would mothers tie around their daughter's waists?
(a) Eagle feathers.
(b) Buffalo skin.
(c) Knotted brances.
(d) Hair ropes.

13. In the beginning of the tale about the Stone Boy, a young girl had how many brothers?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

14. 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?
(a) Buffalo breath.
(b) Crisp running water.
(c) Sweet rose petals.
(d) Smoke.

15. What is the word that the Sioux Indians use for the soul, spirit, or essence?
(a) Nagi.
(b) Hanblechia.
(c) Shehi.
(d) Heyoka.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word hanhepiwi mean?

2. 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?

3. How many days did the ghost dance last?

4. What does Lame Deer say the white man has changed it's women into?

5. Korczak Ziolkowski told Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes that his Crazy Horse monument would dwarf what?

(see the answer keys)

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