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

2. Korczak Ziolkowski told Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes that his Crazy Horse monument would dwarf what?
(a) The tallest buildings in New York.
(b) Mount Rushmore.
(c) The pyramids of Egypt.
(d) The white man.

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

4. What did the girls often do when the time of parting had come for them and someone they love?
(a) They would make up a song.
(b) They would carve their name into the young man's belt.
(c) They would send pieces of their hair with the young man.
(d) They would pass around the peace pipe.

5. What does the steam represent that is coming out of the pot mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Mystery.
(b) Living breath.
(c) Darkness.
(d) New life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lame Deer talks about the white man being afraid of natural odors and declares that soon the white man will breed people without what?

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

3. One way for young folks to get together was for the girl to stand outside her family's tipi with what?

4. In the book, Lame Deer talks about horses in a rodeo and how the riders knew how the horses were going to buck. He says that it's not like riding a horse any more, it's like driving what?

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

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