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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lame Deer know he needed to do after he saw his grandfather with blood dripping from his chest?
(a) He needed to take his grandfather's name.
(b) He needed to tell his family about the horrible truths of the white man.
(c) He needed to seek revenge on the white man.
(d) He needed to be a medicine man.

2. Lame Deer states in the beginning of Chapter 9 that if a conjurer or witch doctor is bad, he will do what?
(a) Cause hatred in the tribe.
(b) Put an evil spirit into a person.
(c) Put a sickness into you that only he can cure and then cure you for a price.
(d) Kill an animal and blame it on someone else.

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

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

6. What was the word that the Sioux tribe used for the stone god?
(a) Tunkan.
(b) Mosaken.
(c) Cheyne.
(d) Wagmuha.

7. What was the reason that Indians drank according to Lame Deer?
(a) To hold on.
(b) To forget.
(c) To be more like the white man.
(d) To remember.

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

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

10. What was the name of Lame Deer's (the great-grandfather) second chief that was shot by soldiers?
(a) Morning Sun.
(b) Screaming Eagle.
(c) Iron Star.
(d) Rod Iron.

11. How much did the Indian who had lost a leg in an industrial accident receive in insurance money?
(a) Fifteen thousand dollars.
(b) Five thousand dollars.
(c) Ten thousand dollars.
(d) Twelve thousand dollars.

12. At the end of the yuwipi ceremony, dog meat was eaten. If someone ended up with the dog's head, what did that mean?
(a) It will bring good luck.
(b) You must pass on your power to your eldest son.
(c) The dog will watch over you from the clouds.
(d) You are doomed to darkness.

13. In the tale of the Stone Boy, how many days was the young girl pregnant before she gave birth to a boy?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Four.
(c) Three thousand.
(d) Four hundred.

14. In the beginning of the tale about the Stone Boy, a young girl had how many brothers?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

15. What does Lame Deer say is the name of a man who "uses the power of the rawhide and the stones to find and to cure"?
(a) Wapiya.
(b) Waanazin.
(c) Waayatan.
(d) Yuwipi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state did the Sioux church members have to get their peyote from?

2. What is the word that the Sioux Indians use for the soul, spirit, or essence?

3. In the process of building a sweat house, how many white willow trees needed to be cut?

4. Where does Lame Deer say the white man goes to to escape bad weather?

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

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