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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lame Deer states that most the time a person became a medicine man through what?
(a) The joint vision of the medicine men of the tribe.
(b) His grandfather's vision.
(c) The vision of the oldest medicine man in the tribe.
(d) His own vision.

2. Which direction did the sweat lodge face?
(a) North.
(b) East.
(c) West.
(d) South.

3. What does Lame Deer say is on the money, but is being killed by the money?
(a) The bald eagle.
(b) The open land.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) The soldiers.

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

5. 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 red.
(c) Yellow and green.
(d) Black and green.

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

7. How many squares of flesh did Lame Deer's grandmother cut from her arm for him to have in the vision pit?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Forty.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Twenty.

8. In the tale of the Stone Boy, how many days was the young girl pregnant before she gave birth to a boy?
(a) Four.
(b) Three thousand.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Four hundred.

9. What does Lame Deer say the white man forgot to give Indians when they brought them whiskey?
(a) Green frog skin.
(b) The instruction book.
(c) A flask.
(d) A woman to cry about.

10. What does Lame Deer say is the main thing in marriage?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Children.
(c) Comfort.
(d) Love.

11. When the holy man in the story of the ghost dance saw the beautiful land he saw a land that was dotted with what?
(a) Indian babies.
(b) Tipis.
(c) Buffalo.
(d) Thunderbirds.

12. How many puffs did the Sioux take on the peace pipe?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

13. Rocks that were used for curing were wrapped carefully in a piece of what?
(a) Horse hair.
(b) Buffalo skin.
(c) Eagle feathers.
(d) A star blanket.

14. Lame Deer states in the beginning of Chapter 9 that if a conjurer or witch doctor is bad, he will do what?
(a) Put an evil spirit into a person.
(b) Put a sickness into you that only he can cure and then cure you for a price.
(c) Cause hatred in the tribe.
(d) Kill an animal and blame it on someone else.

15. What did the girls often do when the time of parting had come for them and someone they love?
(a) They would make up a song.
(b) They would pass around the peace pipe.
(c) They would carve their name into the young man's belt.
(d) They would send pieces of their hair with the young man.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lame Deer talks about the four square miles along the Rapid River that his great-grandfather and his tribe had taken away from them, he talks about the government missing out on a life-sized dinosaur made out of green what?

2. In the process of building a sweat house, how many white willow trees needed to be cut?

3. To get ready for a yuwipi meeting, what did the floor need to be covered with?

4. What did Lame Deer mention was a problem for Indians and that it wouldn't get better?

5. In the first part of the book, Lame Deer describes a white soldier bellied down in a gully watching the women using his green frog skin to fire up what?

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