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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lame Deer talks about the white man being afraid of natural odors and declares that soon the white man will breed people without what?
(a) Underarms.
(b) Pores.
(c) Body openings.
(d) Feet.

2. What does Lame Deer say the white man has changed it's women into?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Hunters.
(c) Housewives.
(d) Workers.

3. In the beginning of Chapter 13, Lame Deer states that the first thing the white man usually asks about is what?
(a) Green frog skin.
(b) Peyote.
(c) Buffalo skins.
(d) The peace pipe.

4. How many guns are there in the Museum of the American Indian in New York City that once belonged to famous Indian chiefs?
(a) Eight or nine.
(b) Five or six.
(c) Four or five.
(d) Six or seven.

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

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

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

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

9. When the holy man in the story of the ghost dance saw the beautiful land he saw a land that was dotted with what?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Tipis.
(c) Thunderbirds.
(d) Indian babies.

10. 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 had to use his knife to cut the rope.
(c) He and his horse had to pull on the rope together.
(d) He had to shoot the rope in two.

11. Lame Deer told a reporter that he would like to plant a staff on the very top of Mount Rushmore to make it a sacred mountain again. What colors would be on the staff?
(a) Black and red.
(b) Yellow and green.
(c) Black and green.
(d) Red and yellow.

12. How old was Lame Deer when his mother died?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 17.
(d) 15.

13. 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?
(a) The latern for the tipi.
(b) Fire wood.
(c) The bonfire for a dance.
(d) Buffalo chips.

14. The beginning of the ghost dance began with a sweat bath and the burning of what?
(a) Sweetgrass.
(b) Dead animals.
(c) Oil.
(d) Old wood from a sacred tree.

15. According to Lame Deer, what was the name of the greatest of all the Sioux?
(a) Crazy Horse.
(b) Wild Horse.
(c) Sitting Bull.
(d) Crazy Bull.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of the tale about the Stone Boy, a young girl had how many brothers?

2. What was the word that the Sioux tribe used for the stone god?

3. Crazy Horse never let a white man take what?

4. In Chapter 12, Lame Deer talks about one thing that made him sad, that the town of Winner was surrounded on all sides by what?

5. In Chapter 7, Pete Catches talks about his sister eating what animal's heart?

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