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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. How many puffs did the Sioux take on the peace pipe?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

2. What does Lame Deer say is the main thing in marriage?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Love.
(c) Comfort.
(d) Children.

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

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

5. What did Ziolkowski say he wanted to do for the Indians?
(a) He said he wanted to stop work on Mount Rushmore.
(b) He said he wanted to paint Mount Rushmore in horrible colors.
(c) He said that he wanted to dedicate his work to Lame Deer.
(d) He said he wanted to put up a giant statue of Crazy Horse.

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. In the beginning of Chapter 6, Lame Deer mentions a pot with plenty of what inside?

3. What does the Sioux word wincincalas mean?

4. What was the name for men who dressed like women?

5. What is the word that the Sioux Indians use for the soul, spirit, or essence?

(see the answer key)

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