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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5: Alone on the Hilltip; That Gun in the New York Museum Belongs to Me; The Green Frog Skin; Getting Drunk, Going to Jail; Sitting on Top of Teddy Roosevelt's Head.

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 seek revenge on the white man.
(b) He needed to tell his family about the horrible truths of the white man.
(c) He needed to take his grandfather's name.
(d) He needed to be a medicine man.

2. What was the name of the old medicine man that brought Lame Deer to the vision pit on the hilltop?
(a) Red Rock.
(b) Chest.
(c) Healy.
(d) Fall.

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) Five or six.
(b) Four or five.
(c) Eight or nine.
(d) Six or seven.

4. What did the Indians name "holy dog"?
(a) The wolf.
(b) The bull.
(c) The buffalo.
(d) The horse.

5. Korczak Ziolkowski told Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes that his Crazy Horse monument would dwarf what?
(a) The white man.
(b) The pyramids of Egypt.
(c) The tallest buildings in New York.
(d) Mount Rushmore.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lame Deer was asked to pick a trade when he was in the reformatory, what did he choose?

2. What does the word hanhepiwi mean?

3. What was the name of Lame Deer's (the great-grandfather) second chief that was shot by soldiers?

4. What was the name of Lame Deer's other grandfather besides Crazy Heart?

5. What was the reason that Indians drank according to Lame Deer?

(see the answer key)

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