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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 is the word that the Sioux Indians use for the soul, spirit, or essence?
(a) Heyoka.
(b) Shehi.
(c) Nagi.
(d) Hanblechia.

2. What animal was most likely to appear in a vision that a medicine man had?
(a) A buffalo.
(b) An eagle.
(c) A bear.
(d) A deer.

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

4. When Lame Deer talks about the four square miles along the Rapid River that his great-grandfather and his tribe had taken away from them, he talks about the government missing out on a life-sized dinosaur made out of green what?
(a) Wood.
(b) Iron.
(c) Concrete.
(d) Paper Mache.

5. One way for young folks to get together was for the girl to stand outside her family's tipi with what?
(a) A buffalo skull.
(b) A bowl of stew.
(c) A big blanket.
(d) A peace pipe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lame Deer described the prayer he usually said when he was crying for a vision. He asked the Great Spirit to pity him so that what may occur?

2. Which entrance did the butterfly guard on the mountain where the wakinyan lived?

3. What did Ziolkowski say he wanted to do for the Indians?

4. When the White Buffalo Woman was addressing the children of the tribe she told them to "remember this and grow up" and do what?

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

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