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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. 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?
(a) The latern for the tipi.
(b) The bonfire for a dance.
(c) Fire wood.
(d) Buffalo chips.

2. 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) Yellow and green.
(c) Red and yellow.
(d) Black and green.

3. What was the name of Lame Deer's other grandfather besides Crazy Heart?
(a) Planter of Water.
(b) Flying By.
(c) Did Not Butcher.
(d) Good Fox.

4. What is the word that the Sioux Indians use for the soul, spirit, or essence?
(a) Nagi.
(b) Heyoka.
(c) Shehi.
(d) Hanblechia.

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

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. How many squares of flesh did Lame Deer's grandmother cut from her arm for him to have in the vision pit?

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

4. What does the word hanhepiwi mean?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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