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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was something that was very sacred, especially to Indians, that the clowns could give the Sioux people?

3. Richard's grandfather taught him to stay away from what?

4. In the tale about Rabbit Boy, when the rabbit came across a pool of blood, what did he do?

5. In the story of Richard and his friends writing a clandestine paper, how much were the costs for the parents of the condemned boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Richard Erdoes see when he rushed to the window and looked outside on his first day in New York City?

2. How does Richard Erdoes describe the prairie of South Dakota?

3. What does Richard Erdoes say he did as a child when he would attend a "blood opera" with his pals?

4. Why would it make a sick person happy to hear a heyoka tell them that they are going to die?

5. When Lame Deer tried to describe a thunderbird, why did he say that could not do it?

6. What is the story that Lame Deer tells about the heyoka turtle and the heyoka frog?

7. Describe the place where the wakinyan live.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the sun dance. Why would this ritual be considered harsh in the white man's world? What were you feelings about this ritual when you read about it? After reading Lame Deer's explanation of the sun dance, would you still consider it to be harsh? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What importance was having an epilogue in the book? What insight does this epilogue provide into Lame Deer's life and into Richard Erdoes' life? How does the epilogue benefit the reader?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the struggles and experiences that Lame Deer went through that helped him become insightful and respectful of the Sioux culture.

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