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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-14: Inipi-Grandfather's Breath; Yuwipi-Little Lights from Nowhere; Looking at the Sun, They Dance; Don't Hurt the Trees; Roll Up the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Red and yellow.
(b) Black and red.
(c) Yellow and green.
(d) Black and green.

3. In the tale of the Stone Boy, how many days was the young girl pregnant before she gave birth to a boy?
(a) Three thousand.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Four.
(d) Four hundred.

4. What church was Lame Deer a member of for five years?
(a) Eastern Community Church.
(b) First Indian American Church.
(c) The Church of the American Indian.
(d) The Native American Church.

5. How many horses did Lame Deer's father have?
(a) Over two hundred.
(b) Over three hundred.
(c) Over two hundred and fifty.
(d) Over three hundred and fifty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Rocks that were used for curing were wrapped carefully in a piece of what?

3. If a boy wasn't satisfied with just rubbing noses with a girl, he would ask an elk medicine man to make him what?

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 states that many white men think that the sun dance is an initiation of what?

(see the answer key)

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