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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. How many guns are there in the Museum of the American Indian in New York City that once belonged to famous Indian chiefs?
(a) Five or six.
(b) Four or five.
(c) Six or seven.
(d) Eight or nine.

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

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?
(a) He had to shoot the rope in two.
(b) He had to use his knife to cut the rope.
(c) He and his horse had to pull on the rope together.
(d) He had to kill the badger.

4. What was the name of Lame Deer's other grandfather besides Crazy Heart?
(a) Planter of Water.
(b) Good Fox.
(c) Flying By.
(d) Did Not Butcher.

5. To protect their daughters from tipi-creepers, what would mothers tie around their daughter's waists?
(a) Hair ropes.
(b) Buffalo skin.
(c) Eagle feathers.
(d) Knotted brances.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lame Deer say the white man goes to to escape bad weather?

2. At the Custer battle, who had green paper in their pockets?

3. What does the name wicasa wakan mean?

4. In the beginning of Chapter 6, Lame Deer mentions a pot with plenty of what inside?

5. How many puffs did the Sioux take on the peace pipe?

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