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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Upside-Down, Forward-Backward, Icy-Hot Contrary.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was something that was very sacred, especially to Indians, that the clowns could give the Sioux people?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Peace.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Purity.

3. In the first part of the book, Lame Deer describes a white soldier bellied down in a gully watching the women using his green frog skin to fire up what?
(a) The bonfire for a dance.
(b) The latern for the tipi.
(c) Buffalo chips.
(d) Fire wood.

4. Lame Deer tells the story of the heyoka turtle and the heyoka frog in Chapter 16. At the beginning of the story, what were they sitting on?
(a) A lillypad.
(b) A patch of grass.
(c) A rock.
(d) A log.

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) Indian babies.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Thunderbirds.
(d) Tipis.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the word that the Sioux tribe used for the stone god?

3. In the book, Lame Deer talks about horses in a rodeo and how the riders knew how the horses were going to buck. He says that it's not like riding a horse any more, it's like driving what?

4. As a start to a yuwipi meeting what needed to be done with all the windows and doors?

5. Lame Deer stated that the only place his tribe could hold their sun dance was where?

(see the answer key)

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