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

2. If a boy wasn't satisfied with just rubbing noses with a girl, he would ask an elk medicine man to make him what?
(a) A flute.
(b) A horse bridle.
(c) A bow and arrow.
(d) An ax.

3. 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?
(a) Wood.
(b) Paper Mache.
(c) Concrete.
(d) Iron.

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

5. Lame Deer tells a story about his uncle and how his horse's rope was pulled into a badger's hole. What did his uncle have to do with the rope?
(a) He had to shoot the rope in two.
(b) He had to use his knife to cut the rope.
(c) He had to kill the badger.
(d) He and his horse had to pull on the rope together.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many squares of flesh did Lame Deer's grandmother cut from her arm for him to have in the vision pit?

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

3. In Chapter 8, Lame Deer talks about a young Navajo boy and girl in their apartment in their city. What color of blanket did he put over this young couple?

4. Lame Deer talks about an old white man that invited him and his friend into his cellar to drink and play cards. Lame Deer said that this bootlegger was so drunk he couldn't do what?

5. What does the Sioux word wincincalas mean?

(see the answer key)

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