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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Winnetou's sidekick was a German what?
(a) Horse rancher.
(b) Trapper.
(c) Goldsmith.
(d) Gunslinger.

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

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

4. Which entrance did the butterfly guard on the mountain where the wakinyan lived?
(a) The West.
(b) The South.
(c) The East.
(d) The North.

5. When Richard was driving through the plains on his first encounter with the American West, what were the houses surrounded by?
(a) Corn fields.
(b) Barron land.
(c) Cattle fields.
(d) Wheat fields.

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

7. The White Buffalo Woman wore a dress made of what?
(a) White quills.
(b) White feathers.
(c) White silk.
(d) White buckskin.

8. One clown was called Heyoka Osni which means what?
(a) The happy cheerful.
(b) The fleeing feet.
(c) The sluggish man.
(d) The cold fool.

9. How many children did Richard and his wife have?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

10. The substitute dancers that helped the heyokas put grass in what two places?
(a) Their hair and shoes.
(b) Their belts and hair.
(c) Their shoes and ears.
(d) Their belts and shoes.

11. The bowl of the pipe represented what?
(a) The body.
(b) The feet.
(c) The hands.
(d) The head.

12. 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.

13. Lame Deer states that those who saw the unktegila went blind for how many days?
(a) Twety.
(b) Ten.
(c) Thirty.
(d) One.

14. When a clown was fooling around he was really performing what?
(a) A spiritual ceremony.
(b) A sad dance.
(c) A comedy act.
(d) A silly joke.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of Winnetou's sidekick?

3. 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?

4. How many hunters were sent out who discovered the White Buffalo Woman?

5. If a person would swear by the sacred pipe then they could not do what?

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