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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 word hanhepiwi mean?
(a) Sun.
(b) Heavens.
(c) Stars.
(d) Moon.

2. 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?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Buffalo breath.
(c) Sweet rose petals.
(d) Crisp running water.

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

4. In the beginning of the tale about the Stone Boy, a young girl had how many brothers?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

5. When the holy man in the story of the ghost dance saw the beautiful land he saw a land that was dotted with what?
(a) Tipis.
(b) Indian babies.
(c) Buffalo.
(d) Thunderbirds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lame Deer states in the beginning of Chapter 9 that if a conjurer or witch doctor is bad, he will do what?

2. 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?

3. Lame Deer talks about a famous chief that was named Man-Afraid-of-His-what?

4. Lame Deer talks about an old white man that invited him and his friend into his cellar to drink and play cards. Lame Deer said that this bootlegger was so drunk he couldn't do what?

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

(see the answer key)

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