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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 does Lame Deer say is on the money, but is being killed by the money?
(a) The soldiers.
(b) The bald eagle.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) The open land.

2. What was the oldest and most solemn ceremony of the Sioux tribe?
(a) The yuwipi ceremony.
(b) The inipi ceremony.
(c) The sun dance.
(d) The steam bath.

3. What animal does Lame Deer mention in Chapter 7 that is much like an Indian because it's unchangeable?
(a) A cat.
(b) A buffalo.
(c) A wolf.
(d) A bear.

4. Lame Deer states that many white men think that the sun dance is an initiation of what?
(a) Of a old medicine man passing on his power to a younger medicine man.
(b) Of a warrior ready to kill for the first time.
(c) Of a young man growing into manhood.
(d) Of a man and a woman growing together in love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lame Deer talks about the white man being afraid of natural odors and declares that soon the white man will breed people without what?

2. If a boy wasn't satisfied with just rubbing noses with a girl, he would ask an elk medicine man to make him what?

3. Which tribe did the ghost dance start in?

4. What did the Indians name "holy dog"?

5. During the yuwipi ceremony a man would lie face down and have his fingers laced together with what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Godfrey Chips describe Crazy Horse?

5. Most of the time, how does a person become a medicine man?

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

7. Who was Leonard Crow Dog?

8. Why does Lame Deer say that Indian children are never alone?

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

10. 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?

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