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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Paper Mache.
(c) Iron.
(d) Concrete.

3. In the tale about Rabbit Boy, when the rabbit came across a pool of blood, what did he do?
(a) He spread it out into a larger pool.
(b) He hopped over it and didn't look back.
(c) He gave it the shape of a human being.
(d) He scooped it up in a cup to keep.

4. In the beginning of Chapter 11, Lame Deer describes a yuwipi ceremony. What does Lame Deer state roared in the darkness?
(a) The pipe smoke.
(b) The drums.
(c) The Great Spirit.
(d) The fire.

5. What did Ziolkowski say he wanted to do for the Indians?
(a) He said that he wanted to dedicate his work to Lame Deer.
(b) He said he wanted to stop work on Mount Rushmore.
(c) He said he wanted to paint Mount Rushmore in horrible colors.
(d) He said he wanted to put up a giant statue of Crazy Horse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was something that was very sacred, especially to Indians, that the clowns could give the Sioux people?

3. Lame Deer states that all the Sioux sweat lodges faced what direction?

4. The beginning of the ghost dance began with a sweat bath and the burning of what?

5. What shoots out from the wakinyan's eyes?

(see the answer key)

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