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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-14: Inipi-Grandfather's Breath; Yuwipi-Little Lights from Nowhere; Looking at the Sun, They Dance; Don't Hurt the Trees; Roll Up the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lame Deer tells a story about his uncle and how his horse's rope was pulled into a badger's hole. What did his uncle have to do with the rope?
(a) He had to kill the badger.
(b) He and his horse had to pull on the rope together.
(c) He had to use his knife to cut the rope.
(d) He had to shoot the rope in two.

2. 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.

3. Lame Deer stated that the only place his tribe could hold their sun dance was where?
(a) A front porch of one member of the tribe.
(b) The old fairgrounds.
(c) An open field behind their reservation.
(d) In an abandoned warehouse.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 13, Lame Deer mentions that one of his tribe's troubles is that they can't do what?
(a) Cheat.
(b) Lie.
(c) Steal.
(d) Curse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first part of the book, Lame Deer describes a white soldier bellied down in a gully watching the women using his green frog skin to fire up what?

2. How many horses did Lame Deer's father have?

3. Lame Deer states that most the time a person became a medicine man through what?

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

5. Lame Deer talks about one of the Sioux's greatest holy men whose name was Chips. How old was Chips' grandson, Godfrey, when the power was passed on to him?

(see the answer key)

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