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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. Lame Deer states that their tribe's oldest lady had a face like what?
(a) The wrinkled sheet.
(b) The rock covered mountains.
(c) Rippled water.
(d) The Badlands.

2. In the tale about the Stone Boy, what does the young girl swallow?
(a) A boy.
(b) An arrow.
(c) A horse.
(d) A stone.

3. What does the word inyan mean?
(a) The horses.
(b) The coyotes.
(c) The rocks.
(d) The houses.

4. When the tree was cut down to prepare for the sun dance and the lower branches were cut off, what was used to cover the "wounds" on the tree?
(a) Blessed water.
(b) A paste made of herbs and leaves.
(c) Vermillion paint.
(d) Buffalo's blood.

5. 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?
(a) Stand up to go to the bathroom.
(b) Walk a zig-zagged line.
(c) Breath any fresh air.
(d) Find his nose with both hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lame Deer states that many white men think that the sun dance is an initiation of what?

2. What did the rectangles represent that had one line missing that are found on the belt that Lame Deer's grandmother made?

3. How many puffs did the Sioux take on the peace pipe?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 13, Lame Deer mentions that one of his tribe's troubles is that they can't do what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What are some of the meanings of the word yuwipi that Lame Deer mentions in the book?

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

5. Who was Leonard Crow Dog?

6. 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?

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

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

9. Describe how Lame Deer sees the old cooking pot in Chapter 6.

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

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