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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 was the name of Lame Deer's (the great-grandfather) second chief that was shot by soldiers?
(a) Iron Star.
(b) Screaming Eagle.
(c) Morning Sun.
(d) Rod Iron.

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

3. What does Lame Deer say the white man forgot to give Indians when they brought them whiskey?
(a) A flask.
(b) The instruction book.
(c) A woman to cry about.
(d) Green frog skin.

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

5. What does Lame Deer say the white man has changed it's women into?
(a) Workers.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Hunters.
(d) Housewives.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In the first part of the book, Lame Deer describes a white soldier bellied down in a gully watching the women using his green frog skin to fire up what?

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

4. What did the Indians name "holy dog"?

5. Lame Deer talks about a bird in the book that doesn't chirp. What did the white man call this type of bird?

(see the answer key)

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