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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. How many guns are there in the Museum of the American Indian in New York City that once belonged to famous Indian chiefs?
(a) Six or seven.
(b) Five or six.
(c) Four or five.
(d) Eight or nine.

2. 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) Find his nose with both hands.
(b) Stand up to go to the bathroom.
(c) Walk a zig-zagged line.
(d) Breath any fresh air.

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

4. 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) Wood.
(c) Iron.
(d) Concrete.

5. What was on the blanket that Lame Deer's grandmother had made especially for the vision pit?
(a) A circle.
(b) A star.
(c) A thunderbird.
(d) A buffalo.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Lame Deer when his mother died?

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?

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

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

5. What did Lame Deer mention was a problem for Indians and that it wouldn't get better?

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