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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. 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?
(a) That the Sioux tribe doesn't exist anymore.
(b) That the Sioux are extremely bashful.
(c) That he once believed himself to be a great Sioux warrior.
(d) That he has seen a thunderbird up close.

2. At the Custer battle, who had green paper in their pockets?
(a) The Indian chiefs.
(b) The white generals.
(c) The white soldiers.
(d) The Indian warriors.

3. What was the name of Lame Deer's other grandfather besides Crazy Heart?
(a) Flying By.
(b) Planter of Water.
(c) Good Fox.
(d) Did Not Butcher.

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

5. What made the first sound that was heard on earth?
(a) Thunder.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) The howling of the wind pipe.
(d) The call of the thunderbird egg.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the word hanhepiwi mean?

3. Lame Deer mentions that sometimes the tonwan or thunderbolt hits something. What does he describe it hitting?

4. 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?

5. One way for young folks to get together was for the girl to stand outside her family's tipi with what?

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