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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. To protect their daughters from tipi-creepers, what would mothers tie around their daughter's waists?
(a) Hair ropes.
(b) Buffalo skin.
(c) Eagle feathers.
(d) Knotted brances.

2. What does the name wicasa wakan mean?
(a) Conjurer.
(b) Witch doctor.
(c) Medicine man.
(d) Holy man.

3. If a boy wasn't satisfied with just rubbing noses with a girl, he would ask an elk medicine man to make him what?
(a) An ax.
(b) A horse bridle.
(c) A flute.
(d) A bow and arrow.

4. In the beginning of Chapter 8, Lame Deer tells a big secret that he just wants to whisper and doesn't dare say aloud. What is this secret?
(a) That the Sioux tribe doesn't exist anymore.
(b) That he has seen a thunderbird up close.
(c) That the Sioux are extremely bashful.
(d) That he once believed himself to be a great Sioux warrior.

5. What does the steam represent that is coming out of the pot mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) New life.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Mystery.
(d) Living breath.

Short Answer Questions

1. The substitute dancers that helped the heyokas put grass in what two places?

2. What does Lame Deer say the white man forgot to give Indians when they brought them whiskey?

3. In Chapter 8, Lame Deer talks about a young Navajo boy and girl in their apartment in their city. What color of blanket did he put over this young couple?

4. One way for young folks to get together was for the girl to stand outside her family's tipi with what?

5. Lame Deer states that many white men think that the sun dance is an initiation of what?

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