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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 is the word that the Sioux Indians use for the soul, spirit, or essence?
(a) Nagi.
(b) Shehi.
(c) Hanblechia.
(d) Heyoka.
2. Korczak Ziolkowski told Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes that his Crazy Horse monument would dwarf what?
(a) The white man.
(b) The tallest buildings in New York.
(c) The pyramids of Egypt.
(d) Mount Rushmore.
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) Lie.
(b) Steal.
(c) Curse.
(d) Cheat.
4. How many squares of flesh did Lame Deer's grandmother cut from her arm for him to have in the vision pit?
(a) Forty.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Thirty.
5. What Sioux word means to bind or tie up?
(a) Inyan.
(b) Yuwi.
(c) Tunka.
(d) Tunkashila.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the reason that Indians drank according to Lame Deer?
2. How many horses did Lame Deer's father have?
3. What animal was most likely to appear in a vision that a medicine man had?
4. Lame Deer stated that the only place his tribe could hold their sun dance was where?
5. What did the rectangles represent that had one line missing that are found on the belt that Lame Deer's grandmother made?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. What does Lame Deer say the white man's symbol is and why?
4. How many buffalo skulls were needed in the old days of the sun dance and what were they needed for?
5. Describe the first white man that Lame Deer ever met.
6. How does Godfrey Chips describe Crazy Horse?
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. Why was the trial that Lame Deer was involved in considered to be one big confusion?
9. Describe how Lame Deer sees the old cooking pot in Chapter 6.
10. Describe some of the things that Indians endured during the sun dance.
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