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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. When Lame Deer was asked to pick a trade when he was in the reformatory, what did he choose?
(a) Sign painting.
(b) Fence builder.
(c) Rodeo clown.
(d) Mechanic.

2. Lame Deer talks about one of the Sioux's greatest holy men whose name was Chips. How old was Chips' grandson, Godfrey, when the power was passed on to him?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fourteen.

3. 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?
(a) Iron.
(b) Wood.
(c) Concrete.
(d) Paper Mache.

4. What does the name wicasa wakan mean?
(a) Medicine man.
(b) Conjurer.
(c) Holy man.
(d) Witch doctor.

5. What did the rectangles represent that had one line missing that are found on the belt that Lame Deer's grandmother made?
(a) Horses' tracks.
(b) Open doors.
(c) Tipi houses.
(d) Puffs of smoke off the pipe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Lame Deer's other grandfather besides Crazy Heart?

2. Which entrance did the butterfly guard on the mountain where the wakinyan lived?

3. What was the name of Lame Deer's (the great-grandfather) second chief that was shot by soldiers?

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

5. To protect their daughters from tipi-creepers, what would mothers tie around their daughter's waists?

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