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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many puffs did the Sioux take on the peace pipe?
2. In the process of building a sweat house, how many white willow trees needed to be cut?
3. Lame Deer states in the beginning of Chapter 9 that if a conjurer or witch doctor is bad, he will do what?
4. Crazy Horse never let a white man take what?
5. At the Custer battle, who had green paper in their pockets?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Why was the trial that Lame Deer was involved in considered to be one big confusion?
3. Describe some of the things that Indians endured during the sun dance.
4. How does Lame Deer describe the white man's way of war?
5. Describe how Lame Deer sees the old cooking pot in Chapter 6.
6. Who was Leonard Crow Dog?
7. Describe the situation described in Chapter 13 when white students gave an old chief a bottle of little pills.
8. Most of the time, how does a person become a medicine man?
9. After the Indians smoke for the fourth and last time in the sweat house, what do they say and how do they exit?
10. What does Lame Deer say the white man's symbol is and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the book, Lame Deer mentions that he left the discussion about the peace pipe until the end of the book because it is the most important subject. Describe why the pipe is such an important symbol and thing in the Sioux Indian culture. Use specific information from the book to support your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Describe how Lame Deer thinks the white man has destroyed or taken the "spirit" from particular animals and also how the white man has taken away from his own natural body. What disasters befall the white man because of these problems, according to Lame Deer?
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 9, Medicine, Good and Bad, Lame Deer talks about the medicine man or wicasa wakan and how they love silence. Why do you think the wicasa wakan had the desire to be by themselves and loved silence? What kinds of experiences did the wicasa wakan have as a result of silence and meditation? How did this bring the wicasa wakan closer to nature and closer to fellow Sioux Indians?
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