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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. Richard Erdoes tells Lame Deer that good art cannot be made with what?
(a) Piece of green frog skin.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A tail feather.
(d) A jackhammer.

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

3. Lame Deer talks about an old white man that invited him and his friend into his cellar to drink and play cards. Lame Deer said that this bootlegger was so drunk he couldn't do what?
(a) Walk a zig-zagged line.
(b) Stand up to go to the bathroom.
(c) Find his nose with both hands.
(d) Breath any fresh air.

4. Lame Deer told a reporter that he would like to plant a staff on the very top of Mount Rushmore to make it a sacred mountain again. What colors would be on the staff?
(a) Black and red.
(b) Red and yellow.
(c) Black and green.
(d) Yellow and green.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many puffs did the Sioux take on the peace pipe?

2. Where does Lame Deer say the white man goes to to escape bad weather?

3. What did Lame Deer know he needed to do after he saw his grandfather with blood dripping from his chest?

4. What did the Indians name "holy dog"?

5. If a boy wasn't satisfied with just rubbing noses with a girl, he would ask an elk medicine man to make him what?

(see the answer key)

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