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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Upside-Down, Forward-Backward, Icy-Hot Contrary.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Buffalo.
(b) Indian babies.
(c) Thunderbirds.
(d) Tipis.

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

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

5. 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 own vision.
(c) His grandfather's vision.
(d) The vision of the oldest medicine man in the tribe.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the tale about the Stone Boy, what does the young girl swallow?

2. What was the great wakinyan of the west clothed in?

3. Lame Deer states that being a clown brought honor but also what?

4. What did the the heyoka do when he ran up on the bucket of boiling water?

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

(see the answer key)

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