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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. The beginning of the ghost dance began with a sweat bath and the burning of what?
(a) Dead animals.
(b) Old wood from a sacred tree.
(c) Oil.
(d) Sweetgrass.

2. Richard Erdoes tells Lame Deer that good art cannot be made with what?
(a) Piece of green frog skin.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A jackhammer.
(d) A tail feather.

3. What was the name for men who dressed like women?
(a) Symbife.
(b) Tanka.
(c) Montmack.
(d) Winktes.

4. During the yuwipi ceremony a man would lie face down and have his fingers laced together with what?
(a) Twine.
(b) Horse hair.
(c) Rawhide.
(d) Human hair.

5. What did the rectangles represent that had one line missing that are found on the belt that Lame Deer's grandmother made?
(a) Horses' tracks.
(b) Tipi houses.
(c) Open doors.
(d) Puffs of smoke off the pipe.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the tale of the Stone Boy, when Stone Boy goes out to find his uncles he starts out in the morning and in the evening he smells what?

2. What was the name of the old medicine man that brought Lame Deer to the vision pit on the hilltop?

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

4. Which tribe did the ghost dance start in?

5. In the beginning of Chapter 11, Lame Deer describes a yuwipi ceremony. What does Lame Deer state roared in the darkness?

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