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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many paths led into the mountain where the wakinyan lived?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

2. In the story mentioned in the beginning of Blood Turned Into Stone, what made up the large pool of blood?
(a) The tears of the people.
(b) The thunderbird cries and buffalo skin.
(c) Flesh and bones of the people.
(d) Blood from the animals killed in the flood.

3. When Richard stopped his car during his first encounter with the American West, what animal did he hear the calls of?
(a) Birds.
(b) Elk.
(c) Cows.
(d) Wolf.

4. What kind of work did Richard do in New York?
(a) He was an illustrator.
(b) He was a painter.
(c) He was a graphic designer.
(d) He was an architect.

5. When Richard fed about sixty Indians in his New York apartment in 1967, how many of those Indians had come to participate in a peace march with Martin Luther King?
(a) 60.
(b) 20.
(c) 15.
(d) 26.

6. How many hunters were sent out who discovered the White Buffalo Woman?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

7. What did the stone represent on the pipe?
(a) The head.
(b) The body.
(c) The blood.
(d) The heart.

8. Where did Richard's first encounter with the American West take place?
(a) Maine.
(b) New York.
(c) South Dakota.
(d) North Dakota.

9. If a person would swear by the sacred pipe then they could not do what?
(a) Speak.
(b) Go back on their word.
(c) Tell the truth.
(d) Lie.

10. When Lame Deer was describing the pipe in Blood Turned Into Stone, he states that the pipe is "us". Therefore, the stem of the pipe represented what?
(a) A body.
(b) A leg.
(c) An arm.
(d) A backbone.

11. Lame Deer states that all the Sioux sweat lodges faced what direction?
(a) North.
(b) West.
(c) South.
(d) East.

12. What was the great wakinyan of the west clothed in?
(a) Clouds.
(b) Quills.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Feathers.

13. What types of birds did Richard spend a lot of time with in the aviary?
(a) Hawks.
(b) Eagles.
(c) Owls.
(d) Sparrows.

14. Lame Deer states in Blood Turned Into Stone that all Indian wisdom could be known through what?
(a) The White Buffalo Woman.
(b) The pipe.
(c) The smoke.
(d) The Great Spirit.

15. Lame Deer tells a story from the 1920's when an Indian was running away from a bunch of cowboys on horseback who couldn't catch him. How old was the Indian?
(a) In his sixties.
(b) In his thirties.
(c) In his seventies.
(d) In his twenties.

Short Answer Questions

1. Richard Erdoes' father died how many weeks before he was born?

2. What did the name of the Itazipcho tribe mean?

3. When a clown was fooling around he was really performing what?

4. Lame Deer states that being a clown brought honor but also what?

5. When Lame Deer received the chance to hold the Ptehincala Huhu Canunpa, what colors of flannel was it wrapped in?

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