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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. In Chapter 12, Lame Deer talks about one thing that made him sad, that the town of Winner was surrounded on all sides by what?
(a) Boundry lines.
(b) Fences.
(c) White cattle ranchers.
(d) Gates and locks.

2. How many times was the door to the sweat house opened during the inipi ceremony?
(a) Six.
(b) Ten.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

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?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Yellow.
(d) White.

4. Korczak Ziolkowski told Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes that his Crazy Horse monument would dwarf what?
(a) The tallest buildings in New York.
(b) The pyramids of Egypt.
(c) Mount Rushmore.
(d) The white man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Lame Deer's other grandfather besides Crazy Heart?

2. When Lame Deer was asked to pick a trade when he was in the reformatory, what did he choose?

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

4. To get ready for a yuwipi meeting, what did the floor need to be covered with?

5. What does Lame Deer say the white man has changed it's women into?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the first white man that Lame Deer ever met.

2. How does Godfrey Chips describe Crazy Horse?

3. Describe how Lame Deer sees the old cooking pot in Chapter 6.

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

5. Why was the trial that Lame Deer was involved in considered to be one big confusion?

6. What did the old Indian in The Green Frog Skin mean when he said, "now they own the air, too."?

7. Describe how Lame Deer's great-grandfather was killed by mistake.

8. Describe some of the things that Indians endured during the sun dance.

9. Describe what happened when Indian police surrounded Sitting Bull's cabin.

10. Describe the situation described in Chapter 13 when white students gave an old chief a bottle of little pills.

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