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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lame Deer stated that the only place his tribe could hold their sun dance was where?
(a) A front porch of one member of the tribe.
(b) The old fairgrounds.
(c) An open field behind their reservation.
(d) In an abandoned warehouse.

2. Lame Deer told a reporter that he would like to plant a staff on the very top of Mount Rushmore to make it a sacred mountain again. What colors would be on the staff?
(a) Black and red.
(b) Red and yellow.
(c) Yellow and green.
(d) Black and green.

3. What was on the blanket that Lame Deer's grandmother had made especially for the vision pit?
(a) A thunderbird.
(b) A buffalo.
(c) A circle.
(d) A star.

4. When the holy man in the story of the ghost dance saw the beautiful land he saw a land that was dotted with what?
(a) Tipis.
(b) Thunderbirds.
(c) Buffalo.
(d) Indian babies.

5. 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) A flute.
(b) A bow and arrow.
(c) An ax.
(d) A horse bridle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal was most likely to appear in a vision that a medicine man had?

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

3. How many guns are there in the Museum of the American Indian in New York City that once belonged to famous Indian chiefs?

4. What was the name of Lame Deer's (the great-grandfather) second chief that was shot by soldiers?

5. What does the word heyoka mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the Indians smoke for the fourth and last time in the sweat house, what do they say and how do they exit?

2. How did Lame Deer end up with a bum shoulder?

3. What does Lame Deer say the white man's symbol is and why?

4. In Chapter 14, the legend of the ghost dance is mentioned. A Ute holy man was taken to heaven and brought back five songs. What did this songs do?

5. In the beginning of Chapter 10, what does Lame Deer mention is the Indian's first rite and always comes before any other ritual?

6. What does the lizard and turtle stand for in the Sioux culture and what were they believed to protect a baby from?

7. How many buffalo skulls were needed in the old days of the sun dance and what were they needed for?

8. When Lame Deer was put on trial, how much was he paid per day?

9. Why does Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes enjoy sitting on Teddy Roosevelt's head more than the other heads on Mount Rushmore?

10. What kind of room would serve as a good room for a yuwipi meeting?

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