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

2. Richard Erdoes tells Lame Deer that good art cannot be made with what?
(a) A jackhammer.
(b) A mountain.
(c) Piece of green frog skin.
(d) A tail feather.

3. 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) Black and green.
(d) Red and yellow.

4. Lame Deer talks about a bird in the book that doesn't chirp. What did the white man call this type of bird?
(a) A night hawk.
(b) A crow.
(c) An owl.
(d) A golden eagle.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How much did the Indian who had lost a leg in an industrial accident receive in insurance money?

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?

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