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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. When Lame Deer was asked to pick a trade when he was in the reformatory, what did he choose?
(a) Sign painting.
(b) Mechanic.
(c) Fence builder.
(d) Rodeo clown.

2. What does Lame Deer say the white man forgot to give Indians when they brought them whiskey?
(a) Green frog skin.
(b) The instruction book.
(c) A flask.
(d) A woman to cry about.

3. What did Lame Deer mention was a problem for Indians and that it wouldn't get better?
(a) Hunting.
(b) Death.
(c) Alcoholism.
(d) Ceremonies.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many horses did Lame Deer's father have?

2. What was on the blanket that Lame Deer's grandmother had made especially for the vision pit?

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

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?

5. What was the name of the old medicine man that brought Lame Deer to the vision pit on the hilltop?

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