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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. To protect their daughters from tipi-creepers, what would mothers tie around their daughter's waists?
(a) Buffalo skin.
(b) Knotted brances.
(c) Hair ropes.
(d) Eagle feathers.

2. What did the girls often do when the time of parting had come for them and someone they love?
(a) They would carve their name into the young man's belt.
(b) They would pass around the peace pipe.
(c) They would send pieces of their hair with the young man.
(d) They would make up a song.

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) Concrete.
(c) Paper Mache.
(d) Wood.

4. What animal does Lame Deer mention in Chapter 7 that is much like an Indian because it's unchangeable?
(a) A cat.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A buffalo.
(d) A bear.

5. How many horses did Lame Deer's father have?
(a) Over two hundred and fifty.
(b) Over three hundred and fifty.
(c) Over three hundred.
(d) Over two hundred.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the first part of the book, Lame Deer describes a white soldier bellied down in a gully watching the women using his green frog skin to fire up what?

3. Lame Deer states that most the time a person became a medicine man through what?

4. What does Lame Deer say is the main thing in marriage?

5. Korczak Ziolkowski told Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes that his Crazy Horse monument would dwarf what?

(see the answer key)

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