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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 wolf.
(c) The bull.
(d) The horse.

2. What does the Sioux word wincincalas mean?
(a) Good-looking girls.
(b) Frightened dogs.
(c) Monstrous buffaloes.
(d) Powerful warriors.

3. What does the word inyan mean?
(a) The coyotes.
(b) The horses.
(c) The houses.
(d) The rocks.

4. What did Lame Deer mention was a problem for Indians and that it wouldn't get better?
(a) Death.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Ceremonies.
(d) Hunting.

5. When Lame Deer was asked to pick a trade when he was in the reformatory, what did he choose?
(a) Mechanic.
(b) Rodeo clown.
(c) Fence builder.
(d) Sign painting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lame Deer say is on the money, but is being killed by the money?

2. Richard Erdoes tells Lame Deer that good art cannot be made with what?

3. 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?

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

5. What does Lame Deer say is the name of a man who "uses the power of the rawhide and the stones to find and to cure"?

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