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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blood Turned Into Stone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the word inipi mean?
(a) Wood bow.
(b) Dog stew.
(c) Peace pipe.
(d) Sweat bath.

2. In the story of Rabbit Boy, what came down to make the pieces of Rabbit Boy disappear?
(a) A giant thunderbird.
(b) Hail.
(c) Rain.
(d) A cloud.

3. When the tree was cut down to prepare for the sun dance and the lower branches were cut off, what was used to cover the "wounds" on the tree?
(a) Vermillion paint.
(b) Blessed water.
(c) Buffalo's blood.
(d) A paste made of herbs and leaves.

4. What was the name of the old medicine man that brought Lame Deer to the vision pit on the hilltop?
(a) Healy.
(b) Chest.
(c) Fall.
(d) Red Rock.

5. Lame Deer talks about one of the Sioux's greatest holy men whose name was Chips. How old was Chips' grandson, Godfrey, when the power was passed on to him?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Eighteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lame Deer states that the egg from which all the thunderbirds are hatched is bigger than what?

2. How many squares of flesh did Lame Deer's grandmother cut from her arm for him to have in the vision pit?

3. Lame Deer tells of a convention that he went to and brought his pipe, which everyone smoked. How long had Lame Deer had this particular pipe?

4. Lame Deer tells a story from the 1920's when an Indian was running away from a bunch of cowboys on horseback who couldn't catch him. How old was the Indian?

5. In the Indian culture, Lame Deer states that clowns had more power than what?

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