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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. What does Lame Deer say the white man forgot to give Indians when they brought them whiskey?
(a) A woman to cry about.
(b) A flask.
(c) Green frog skin.
(d) The instruction book.

2. Lame Deer states that being a clown brought honor but also what?
(a) Shame.
(b) Fame.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Sadness.

3. The second thunderbird who was red, has wings with how many joints?
(a) Five.
(b) Eight.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

4. Lame Deer states that most the time a person became a medicine man through what?
(a) The vision of the oldest medicine man in the tribe.
(b) The joint vision of the medicine men of the tribe.
(c) His own vision.
(d) His grandfather's vision.

5. What was the name of Lame Deer's other grandfather besides Crazy Heart?
(a) Good Fox.
(b) Flying By.
(c) Planter of Water.
(d) Did Not Butcher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the the heyoka do when he ran up on the bucket of boiling water?

2. In the beginning of the tale about the Stone Boy, a young girl had how many brothers?

3. Which tribe did the ghost dance start in?

4. What does the word hanhepiwi mean?

5. What Sioux word means to bind or tie up?

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