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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lame describes a time when a friend of his went to the rock quarry to pick out stone. The park ranger said he could take out a pound for how much?
(a) A dollar.
(b) Ten dollars.
(c) Five dollars.
(d) Two dollars.

2. What animal guarded the west entrance to the mountain where the wakinyan lived?
(a) A deer.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A buffalo.
(d) A bear.

3. In what year did Richard Erdoes find himself crossing the Atlantic Ocean?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1939.

4. 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) 26.
(b) 20.
(c) 60.
(d) 15.

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

6. When the White Buffalo Woman was addressing the children of the tribe she told them to "remember this and grow up" and do what?
(a) "Teach your children."
(b) "Be better than the past."
(c) "Love the land."
(d) "Live a good and strong life."

7. What did the smoke rising from the pipe represent?
(a) The eyes.
(b) Fog.
(c) The lungs.
(d) Breath.

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

9. 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 backbone.
(b) A leg.
(c) A body.
(d) An arm.

10. 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.

11. When Richard had some of his Indian friends visit him in New York, what left the Indians speechless?
(a) The skyscrapers.
(b) The hustle and bustle of New Yorkers.
(c) The Statue of Liberty.
(d) The Atlantic Ocean.

12. In the story of Richard and his friends writing a clandestine paper, how much were the costs for the parents of the condemned boy?
(a) 300 dollars.
(b) 900 dollars.
(c) 500 dollars.
(d) 800 dollars.

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

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

15. Why did Richard's aunt from Austria claim all her fleas liked him better?
(a) Because they knew she didn't like them.
(b) Because he had sweeter blood.
(c) Because she was a religious woman.
(d) Because he was a young boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Lakota word, wakinyan mean?

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

3. Who did Richard Erdoes claim was responsible for he and his pals attending "blood operas"?

4. When Richard was driving through the plains on his first encounter with the American West, what were the houses surrounded by?

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

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