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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. What was the name for men who dressed like women?
(a) Tanka.
(b) Symbife.
(c) Winktes.
(d) Montmack.

2. 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) Fences.
(b) Boundry lines.
(c) Gates and locks.
(d) White cattle ranchers.

3. At the beginning of Chapter 13, Lame Deer mentions that one of his tribe's troubles is that they can't do what?
(a) Cheat.
(b) Curse.
(c) Lie.
(d) Steal.

4. What did Lame Deer know he needed to do after he saw his grandfather with blood dripping from his chest?
(a) He needed to seek revenge on the white man.
(b) He needed to be a medicine man.
(c) He needed to tell his family about the horrible truths of the white man.
(d) He needed to take his grandfather's name.

5. In the tale of the Stone Boy, how many days was the young girl pregnant before she gave birth to a boy?
(a) Four.
(b) Four hundred.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Three thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lame Deer talks about an old white man that invited him and his friend into his cellar to drink and play cards. Lame Deer said that this bootlegger was so drunk he couldn't do what?

2. In the beginning of Chapter 11, Lame Deer describes a yuwipi ceremony. What does Lame Deer state roared in the darkness?

3. In the tale about the Stone Boy, what does the young girl swallow?

4. What was the reason that Indians drank according to Lame Deer?

5. What was the oldest and most solemn ceremony of the Sioux tribe?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Godfrey Chips describe Crazy Horse?

3. What would happen in a Sioux tribe when a young girl would have her heart set on a young boy instead of a famous chief and would elope with him?

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

5. Why does Lame Deer say that the pipe is like an open Bible to him and his people?

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

7. Many medicine men get their power from a particular animal. Describe some of the powers and attributes that an elk master or medicine man would have.

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

9. What kind of shapes are in the belt that Lame Deer's grandmother made that is mentioned in Chapter 6 and what do these shapes represent?

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

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