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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-9: The Circle and the Square; Talking to the Owls and Butterflies; Two in a Blanket; Medicine Good and Bad.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many guns are there in the Museum of the American Indian in New York City that once belonged to famous Indian chiefs?
(a) Four or five.
(b) Five or six.
(c) Six or seven.
(d) Eight or nine.

4. What was the word that the Sioux tribe used for the stone god?
(a) Mosaken.
(b) Cheyne.
(c) Tunkan.
(d) Wagmuha.

5. What was on the blanket that Lame Deer's grandmother had made especially for the vision pit?
(a) A circle.
(b) A star.
(c) A buffalo.
(d) A thunderbird.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Lame Deer mention in Chapter 7 that is much like an Indian because it's unchangeable?

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

3. What does Lame Deer say is on the money, but is being killed by the money?

4. In the book, Lame Deer talks about horses in a rodeo and how the riders knew how the horses were going to buck. He says that it's not like riding a horse any more, it's like driving what?

5. Crazy Horse never let a white man take what?

(see the answer key)

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