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

2. What did Lame Deer know he needed to do after he saw his grandfather with blood dripping from his chest?
(a) He needed to be a medicine man.
(b) He needed to tell his family about the horrible truths of the white man.
(c) He needed to take his grandfather's name.
(d) He needed to seek revenge on the white man.

3. How much did the Indian who had lost a leg in an industrial accident receive in insurance money?
(a) Ten thousand dollars.
(b) Twelve thousand dollars.
(c) Fifteen thousand dollars.
(d) Five thousand dollars.

4. Which direction did the sweat lodge face?
(a) West.
(b) South.
(c) East.
(d) North.

5. Korczak Ziolkowski told Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes that his Crazy Horse monument would dwarf what?
(a) The white man.
(b) The tallest buildings in New York.
(c) The pyramids of Egypt.
(d) Mount Rushmore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the word that the Sioux Indians use for the soul, spirit, or essence?

2. In the tale about the Stone Boy, what does the young girl swallow?

3. Lame Deer talks about the white man being afraid of natural odors and declares that soon the white man will breed people without what?

4. When the earth was young, the Sioux Indians believe that the wakinyan ruled over what?

5. Richard Erdoes tells Lame Deer that good art cannot be made with what?

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