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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) Five or six.
(b) Four or five.
(c) Eight or nine.
(d) Six or seven.

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

3. 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.

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

5. At the Custer battle, who had green paper in their pockets?
(a) The Indian chiefs.
(b) The Indian warriors.
(c) The white soldiers.
(d) The white generals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Crazy Horse never let a white man take what?

2. 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?

3. What does Lame Deer say the white man forgot to give Indians when they brought them whiskey?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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