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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 did Lame Deer know he needed to do after he saw his grandfather with blood dripping from his chest?
(a) He needed to be a medicine man.
(b) He needed to seek revenge on the white man.
(c) He needed to tell his family about the horrible truths of the white man.
(d) He needed to take his grandfather's name.

2. What did Lame Deer mention was a problem for Indians and that it wouldn't get better?
(a) Ceremonies.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Death.
(d) Alcoholism.

3. What was the name of Lame Deer's (the great-grandfather) second chief that was shot by soldiers?
(a) Rod Iron.
(b) Iron Star.
(c) Morning Sun.
(d) Screaming Eagle.

4. What does the word heyoka mean?
(a) Horse.
(b) Clown.
(c) Bull.
(d) Rodeo.

5. Where does Lame Deer say the white man goes to to escape bad weather?
(a) Las Angeles.
(b) San Diego.
(c) Orlando.
(d) Miami.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many guns are there in the Museum of the American Indian in New York City that once belonged to famous Indian chiefs?

2. What does the name wicasa wakan mean?

3. What animal was most likely to appear in a vision that a medicine man had?

4. Lame Deer talks about a famous chief that was named Man-Afraid-of-His-what?

5. At the Custer battle, who had green paper in their pockets?

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