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Quiz about Little Big Man Spoofs the Old West
Quiz about Little Big Man Spoofs the Old West

"Little Big Man" Spoofs the Old West Quiz


One of my favorite movie spoofs is this 1970 classic starring Dustin Hoffman as 121-year-old Jack Crabb. Have fun!

A multiple-choice quiz by shvdotr. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
shvdotr
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
378,078
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
9 / 15
Plays
194
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
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Question 1 of 15
1. In "Little Big Man", the orphaned Jack Crabb gets adopted by which Plains tribe? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. Which Plains people attacked the wagon train that Jack's family was traveling in and killed his parents? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. An mix-up occurs early on in "Little Big Man" when Jack and his sister are first taken in by the Human Beings. Which piece of confusion takes place? Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. Who taught Jack the snake eyes technique he used during his gunfighter period? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. When does Grandfather tell Jack, "Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't."? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. One of the things Grandfather sees in his dreams was when Jack did what? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. What happens to Jack Crabb in "Little Big Man" at Custer's Last Stand? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. Who tars and feathers Jack, intending to run him out of town on a rail, in Jack's "snake-oil salesman period"? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. One of the stories Grandfather tells Jack is about a great Cheyenne warrior named Little Man. What is the key component of the story? Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. Which of Little Big Man's childhood friends did not become a warrior, but was instead a himanyi (hwame or two-spirit person), a man who dressed and acted like a woman? He said to Little Big Man after he had returned to the tribe, "You look tired, Little Big Man. Would you like to come in my teepee and rest on soft furs? Come and live with me and I will be your wife." Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. As a child, Jack learned the ways of his new tribal people. But his companions also learned from him. What did the native boys not know how to do? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. Jack was married twice, once as Jack and once as Little Big Man. Who were his wives? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. While Jack was in his town drunk period in Deadwood, who recognized him and gave him money to get cleaned up? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. What two positions did Jack hold as a member of the forces under the command of General George Armstrong Custer? Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. What value did Custer see in Jack when Jack served under the General in the days leading up to the Battle of Little Bighorn? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. In "Little Big Man", the orphaned Jack Crabb gets adopted by which Plains tribe?

Answer: Cheyenne

Jack reveals this when he tells about being found by Shadow That Comes in Sight, "But this one wasn't a Pawnee. He was a Cheyenne brave. I later got to know him well."

The Cheyenne refer to themselves in their own language as "Human Beings". Adoption of white captives or orphans, as well as children of other tribes, was a common occurrence in Native American cultures as well as a common theme in literature and films about those cultures.

None of the three incorrect choices are Plains peoples.
2. Which Plains people attacked the wagon train that Jack's family was traveling in and killed his parents?

Answer: Pawnee

Jack begins his narration with "...it was a band of Pawnee what attacked us. I ain't had no use for Pawnee ever since."

We learn that the Pawnees are traditional enemies of the Human Beings when a group of warriors from Little Big Man's village set out to wage war against them. Although Little Big Man is not expected to fight, he ends up saving Younger Bear's life by killing a Pawnee warrior.

None of the incorrect choices are Plains peoples.
3. An mix-up occurs early on in "Little Big Man" when Jack and his sister are first taken in by the Human Beings. Which piece of confusion takes place?

Answer: The Crabbs' adoptive people think Jack's sister is a man.

As Jack narrates the scene when he and Caroline are first brought to Old Lodge Skins in the tipi, "To show good manners, Old Lodge Skins smoked with our oldest male survivor." The old chief then hands the pipe to Caroline. But one of the Cheyenne women grabs Caroline's crotch, then disgustedly slaps her hands together to show Caroline has no male equipment. Caroline later tells Jack, "They didn't know I was a woman. That's why they didn't rape me right off."

Later, Caroline, believing that the Cheyenne are going to rape her, leaves the village at night, and Jack is left to be raised by the Natives.
4. Who taught Jack the snake eyes technique he used during his gunfighter period?

Answer: His sister, Caroline

Once she has her little brother completely out of his snake-oil period, Caroline tells Jack, "Why, a man ain't complete without a gun." Then, as she is teaching him how to shoot, she says, "Go snake eyed," and demonstrates the technique. She also tells him to "...draw and shoot that bottle before you touch the gun." Eventually he does that, also.

Jack then becomes a gunslinger known as the Soda Pop Kid. But he severely disappoints his sister because he can't kill a man, and she leaves him in disgust, saying "There's ain't nothin' in this world more useless than a gunfighter who can't shoot *people*!"
5. When does Grandfather tell Jack, "Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't."?

Answer: When Grandfather attempts to lie down and die.

Old Lodge Skins and Little Big Man go to a burial ground and the old man lies down to die. It begins to rain and after a while, he sits up and asks, "Am I still in this world?" Jack answers, "Yes, Grandfather." Whereupon Old Lodge Skins says, "I was afraid of that. Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't."
6. One of the things Grandfather sees in his dreams was when Jack did what?

Answer: drank soda from an elephant trunk

Louise Pendrake takes young Jack to a soda fountain to dally with its proprietor, leaving Jack to help himself to the soda fountain and a spigot in the shape of an elephant's head which dispenses the soda through the trunk. Years later, when Jack has returned to the Cheyenne, Old Lodge Skins relates his dream about seeing Jack drinking from the fountain. Dreams were an important connection to the spiritual world for Native Americans, and Old Lodge Skins was very spiritually connected.
7. What happens to Jack Crabb in "Little Big Man" at Custer's Last Stand?

Answer: He is saved by Younger Bear.

For Younger Bear, saving Jack releases him from a self-imposed taboo against killing Little Big Man, who had saved Younger Bear's life at the hands of the Pawnee. Thus Younger Bear tells Jack, "...the next time we meet, I can kill you without becoming an evil person."
8. Who tars and feathers Jack, intending to run him out of town on a rail, in Jack's "snake-oil salesman period"?

Answer: His sister, Caroline

As Jack is being tarred and feathered, Caroline, who is leading the mob, seems to recognize him and asks his name. When he replies, "Jack Crabb," Caroline exclaims, "Lord above! I've tarred and feathered my own brother!"
9. One of the stories Grandfather tells Jack is about a great Cheyenne warrior named Little Man. What is the key component of the story?

Answer: Little Man continues to fight after his head is cut off.

Again the Pawnees were the enemy. Little Man fought hard, but the Pawnee cut off his head. But he fought on. Grandfather says, "He rode among the Pawnees like a whirlwind, and his head, which was stuck on a spear, started to shout the war cry. The Pawnees could take no more..."
10. Which of Little Big Man's childhood friends did not become a warrior, but was instead a himanyi (hwame or two-spirit person), a man who dressed and acted like a woman? He said to Little Big Man after he had returned to the tribe, "You look tired, Little Big Man. Would you like to come in my teepee and rest on soft furs? Come and live with me and I will be your wife."

Answer: Little Horse

Robert Little Star plays Little Horse. As Old Lodge Skins explains to Jack, "The Human Beings don't require a boy to be a warrior if he ain't got the temperament, and Little Horse didn't. If he wanted to stay with the women, that was all right with the Human Beings."
11. As a child, Jack learned the ways of his new tribal people. But his companions also learned from him. What did the native boys not know how to do?

Answer: fist fight

When the boys were getting ready to go on a raid against the Pawnees, Younger Bear attempted to bully Jack into not joining in the raid. Jack responded by slugging Younger Bear, bloodying his nose. Amazed, Younger Bear asks, "How did you do that?" The incident resulted in Younger Bear's lifelong enmity with Jack.
12. Jack was married twice, once as Jack and once as Little Big Man. Who were his wives?

Answer: Olga and Sunshine

Olga was a Swedish immigrant who was Jack's wife when he owned the dry goods store. She was captured by the Cheyenne as the couple was heading west and eventually became Younger Bear's nagging wife. Later, when he was a muleskinner for the Army, Jack discovered Sunshine giving birth during a raid on the Cheyenne. Jack took her as his wife, left the Army, and returned to the Cheyenne. She was killed during Custer's raid on the Cheyenne at the Washita River.

Caroline was Jack's sister. Louise and Lulu were the names of Faye Dunaway's character in the movie, first as the philandering wife of Reverend Silas Pendrake, and then later as the "fallen flower" and friend of Wild Bill Hickok. Snake Woman and Doesn't Like Horses were wives of Old Lodge Skins. And Little White Dove was the name of Running Bear's beloved in the 1959 pop song written by the Big Bopper.
13. While Jack was in his town drunk period in Deadwood, who recognized him and gave him money to get cleaned up?

Answer: Wild Bill Hickok

Hickok and Jack became acquainted during Jack's gunfighter period as the Soda Pop Kid. Wild Bill was a famed authentic gunfighter, while Jack was not. Later, when he found Jack as the town drunk in Deadwood, Hickok told Jack, "You're a sad sight, horse. You should have stuck to soda pop." Hickok then gave Jack money to clean up so he could do Wild Bill "a confidential favor...involving a widow." Shortly thereafter, Bill was shot to death.
14. What two positions did Jack hold as a member of the forces under the command of General George Armstrong Custer?

Answer: muleskinner and scout

Jack's first position with Custer was as a muleskinner, but he turned against the army during the raid when he discovered Sunshine. Much later, when he was considering suicide, he spied the cavalry on the march, Jack decided to take his revenge on Custer, who accepted Jack as a scout.

In between his two stints in the Seventh Cavalry, Jack experienced the massacre on the Washita River, as well as his drunk period. He later contemplated suicide, but witnessed Custer's forces crossing the Plains toward the eventual battleground of the Little Bighorn.
15. What value did Custer see in Jack when Jack served under the General in the days leading up to the Battle of Little Bighorn?

Answer: as a "reverse barometer"

Knowing Jack was sympathetic to the Cheyenne, Custer told his adjutant, "Oh, his game is very obvious: to lead me away from his Indian friends. Anything that man tells me will be a lie. Therefore he will be a perfect reverse barometer."
Source: Author shvdotr

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