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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. 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) Concrete.
(b) Iron.
(c) Wood.
(d) Paper Mache.

2. What was the reason that Indians drank according to Lame Deer?
(a) To hold on.
(b) To remember.
(c) To be more like the white man.
(d) To forget.

3. What does the word heyoka mean?
(a) Bull.
(b) Clown.
(c) Rodeo.
(d) Horse.

4. What does the word inipi mean?
(a) Sweat bath.
(b) Wood bow.
(c) Dog stew.
(d) Peace pipe.

5. During the yuwipi ceremony a man would lie face down and have his fingers laced together with what?
(a) Twine.
(b) Human hair.
(c) Rawhide.
(d) Horse hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the Custer battle, who had green paper in their pockets?

2. What was the word that the Sioux tribe used for the stone god?

3. What was the name of the old medicine man that brought Lame Deer to the vision pit on the hilltop?

4. What animal does Lame Deer mention in Chapter 7 that is much like an Indian because it's unchangeable?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Lame Deer describe the white man's way of war?

4. What would the mothers of daughters afraid of tipi-creepers do to create a "No Trespassing" sign on their daughter and what would the mothers do if they found there had been a tipi-creeper?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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