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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. What was the name of Richard Erdoes' wife?
(a) Jean.
(b) Jillian.
(c) Jasmine.
(d) Joan.

2. Lame Deer mentions that sometimes the tonwan or thunderbolt hits something. What does he describe it hitting?
(a) A horse.
(b) A bull.
(c) A pig.
(d) A human.

3. In what year was Richard sent to do a story on an old mining railroad?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1951.

4. What did a heyoka ceremony start with?
(a) Smoking a pipe.
(b) Singing a chant.
(c) A dance.
(d) A bath.

5. What was something that was very sacred, especially to Indians, that the clowns could give the Sioux people?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Purity.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Richard fed the Indians at his New York apartment, one old man stayed at his apartment for how many months?

2. The White Buffalo Woman wore a dress made of what?

3. The bowl of the pipe represented what?

4. What animal guarded the west entrance to the mountain where the wakinyan lived?

5. When Richard was arrested by a brutish-looking policeman who took him to a park, the policeman gave him enough money for a third-class ticket to where?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. According to Sioux legend, where did the blood-red rock found in the southwest corner of Minnesota come from?

5. According to legend, where did the Sioux nation come from?

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

7. Because of Iktome, the spider man, what did the villagers do to Rabbit Boy?

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

9. Describe the Odenwald Schule that Richard Erdoes attended for two years.

10. What does Lame Deer state the old people used to say about damage caused by lightning?

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