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

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

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

4. How many squares of flesh did Lame Deer's grandmother cut from her arm for him to have in the vision pit?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Fifteen.

5. 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 green.
(b) Black and red.
(c) Yellow and green.
(d) Red and yellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ziolkowski say he wanted to do for the Indians?

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

3. Richard Erdoes tells Lame Deer that good art cannot be made with what?

4. Korczak Ziolkowski told Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes that his Crazy Horse monument would dwarf what?

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

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