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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lame Deer states that the egg from which all the thunderbirds are hatched is bigger than what?
(a) South Dakota.
(b) New York City.
(c) A mountain lake.
(d) A mountain.

2. How many years did Richard go to the Odenwald Schule?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

3. In the story of Rabbit Boy, what came down to make the pieces of Rabbit Boy disappear?
(a) A cloud.
(b) A giant thunderbird.
(c) Rain.
(d) Hail.

4. Lame Deer states that being a clown brought honor but also what?
(a) Fame.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Shame.
(d) Guilt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Richard had some of his Indian friends visit him in New York, what left the Indians speechless?

2. What shoots out from the wakinyan's eyes?

3. What was the great wakinyan of the west clothed in?

4. What was the color of the buckskin that Rabbit boy wore?

5. How many sons did Richard Erdoes have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the substitute dancers in a heyoka ceremony wear?

2. Before Richard Erdoes met his Indian friends, what did he do in New York?

3. Where did Richard Erdoes' Jewish grandfather live and what did he teach Richard?

4. What happened when Richard Erdoes was attending a yuwipi meeting and he asked to take photographs?

5. What did Iktome, the spider man, decide to do after he discovered that Rabbit Boy had come back to life and gone up with the clouds?

6. What does the great wakinyan or thunderbird of the west look like?

7. Who was Karl May's favorite Indian hero?

8. What does Lame Deer say is the reason that one loud clap of thunder is heard followed by smaller rumblings?

9. How did each day end for Richard Erdoes when he lived with his aunt who was a Mohammedan girl from Sarajevo?

10. How does Lame Deer liken the sacred pipe to a Sioux person?

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