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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. How many squares of flesh did Lame Deer's grandmother cut from her arm for him to have in the vision pit?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Forty.

2. Lame Deer mentions a special kind of deer called the taha topta sapa which had a black streak across what?
(a) It's face.
(b) It's stomach.
(c) It's tail.
(d) It's ears.

3. What did Lame Deer mention was a problem for Indians and that it wouldn't get better?
(a) Death.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Ceremonies.
(d) Hunting.

4. What animal was most likely to appear in a vision that a medicine man had?
(a) A deer.
(b) A bear.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A buffalo.

5. What did Ziolkowski say he wanted to do for the Indians?
(a) He said he wanted to paint Mount Rushmore in horrible colors.
(b) He said he wanted to stop work on Mount Rushmore.
(c) He said he wanted to put up a giant statue of Crazy Horse.
(d) He said that he wanted to dedicate his work to Lame Deer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lame Deer states that their tribe's oldest lady had a face like what?

2. Lame Deer stated that the only place his tribe could hold their sun dance was where?

3. In the tale of the Stone Boy, when Stone Boy goes out to find his uncles he starts out in the morning and in the evening he smells what?

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

5. What did Lame Deer know he needed to do after he saw his grandfather with blood dripping from his chest?

Short Essay Questions

1. When a medicine man, or wicasa wakan, is old and nearing the end of his life, who does he try to pass on his vision and knowledge to and what happens if that doesn't work?

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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. Who was Leonard Crow Dog?

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

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