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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5: Alone on the Hilltip; That Gun in the New York Museum Belongs to Me; The Green Frog Skin; Getting Drunk, Going to Jail; Sitting on Top of Teddy Roosevelt's Head.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Lame Deer was asked to pick a trade when he was in the reformatory, what did he choose?
(a) Fence builder.
(b) Mechanic.
(c) Sign painting.
(d) Rodeo clown.

2. What does the word hanhepiwi mean?
(a) Stars.
(b) Moon.
(c) Sun.
(d) Heavens.

3. What does Lame Deer say the white man forgot to give Indians when they brought them whiskey?
(a) A woman to cry about.
(b) The instruction book.
(c) Green frog skin.
(d) A flask.

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

5. What is the word that the Sioux Indians use for the soul, spirit, or essence?
(a) Nagi.
(b) Shehi.
(c) Hanblechia.
(d) Heyoka.

Short Answer Questions

1. Richard Erdoes tells Lame Deer that good art cannot be made with what?

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

3. 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?

4. How many guns are there in the Museum of the American Indian in New York City that once belonged to famous Indian chiefs?

5. Lame Deer talks about a bird in the book that doesn't chirp. What did the white man call this type of bird?

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