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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word hanhepiwi mean?

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

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

4. What does Lame Deer say is on the money, but is being killed by the money?

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

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