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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. At the Custer battle, who had green paper in their pockets?
(a) The white soldiers.
(b) The Indian warriors.
(c) The Indian chiefs.
(d) The white generals.

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

3. How many puffs did the Sioux take on the peace pipe?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

4. What was on the blanket that Lame Deer's grandmother had made especially for the vision pit?
(a) A star.
(b) A buffalo.
(c) A thunderbird.
(d) A circle.

5. According to Lame Deer, what was the name of the greatest of all the Sioux?
(a) Wild Horse.
(b) Sitting Bull.
(c) Crazy Bull.
(d) Crazy Horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Lame Deer when his mother died?

2. What did the girls often do when the time of parting had come for them and someone they love?

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. 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?

5. 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?

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