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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-9: The Circle and the Square; Talking to the Owls and Butterflies; Two in a Blanket; Medicine Good and Bad.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lame Deer say is the main thing in marriage?
(a) Children.
(b) Love.
(c) Comfort.
(d) Understanding.

2. Lame Deer states that most the time a person became a medicine man through what?
(a) His own vision.
(b) His grandfather's vision.
(c) The joint vision of the medicine men of the tribe.
(d) The vision of the oldest medicine man in the tribe.

3. What was the name for men who dressed like women?
(a) Tanka.
(b) Montmack.
(c) Symbife.
(d) Winktes.

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

5. What did Lame Deer know he needed to do after he saw his grandfather with blood dripping from his chest?
(a) He needed to take his grandfather's name.
(b) He needed to seek revenge on the white man.
(c) He needed to be a medicine man.
(d) He needed to tell his family about the horrible truths of the white man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the name wicasa wakan mean?

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

3. Lame Deer talks about one of the Sioux's greatest holy men whose name was Chips. How old was Chips' grandson, Godfrey, when the power was passed on to him?

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

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

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