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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 times was the door to the sweat house opened during the inipi ceremony?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Ten.
(d) Three.

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

3. The substitute dancers that helped the heyokas put grass in what two places?
(a) Their belts and hair.
(b) Their hair and shoes.
(c) Their belts and shoes.
(d) Their shoes and ears.

4. How many paths led into the mountain where the wakinyan lived?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

5. When the holy man came back to earth in the story of the ghost dance, he began to teach the people a dance. How many songs did he have?
(a) Eight.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Lakota word, wakinyan mean?

3. The beginning of the ghost dance began with a sweat bath and the burning of what?

4. The second thunderbird who was red, has wings with how many joints?

5. Lame Deer states that all the Sioux sweat lodges faced what direction?

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