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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. What does the word hanhepiwi mean?
(a) Stars.
(b) Moon.
(c) Sun.
(d) Heavens.

2. Lame Deer tells a story about his uncle and how his horse's rope was pulled into a badger's hole. What did his uncle have to do with the rope?
(a) He had to use his knife to cut the rope.
(b) He and his horse had to pull on the rope together.
(c) He had to kill the badger.
(d) He had to shoot the rope in two.

3. In the beginning of Chapter 13, Lame Deer states that the first thing the white man usually asks about is what?
(a) Buffalo skins.
(b) Peyote.
(c) The peace pipe.
(d) Green frog skin.

4. 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) White cattle ranchers.
(b) Fences.
(c) Boundry lines.
(d) Gates and locks.

5. In the process of building a sweat house, how many white willow trees needed to be cut?
(a) Five.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Twelve.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the reason that Indians drank according to Lame Deer?

2. Lame Deer describes the heyokas as having rattles made from rows of what?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 15, Lame Deer states that he was going to tell a story that wouldn't be funny. The story was about what?

4. Where does Lame Deer say the white man goes to to escape bad weather?

5. What does the Lakota word, wakinyan mean?

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