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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the oldest dance along with the sun dance in the Sioux culture?
(a) The "Around the Bucket" dance.
(b) The "Into the Sky" dance.
(c) The "Water Comes" dance.
(d) The "Sing to the Rain" dance.

2. If a person would swear by the sacred pipe then they could not do what?
(a) Lie.
(b) Speak.
(c) Go back on their word.
(d) Tell the truth.

3. What does the name of the pipe, Ptehincala Huhu Canunpa mean?
(a) White Buffalo Woman Pipe.
(b) Buffalo Calf Bone Pipe.
(c) Buffalo Bone Pipe.
(d) Buffalo Woman Pipe.

4. When Richard stopped his car during his first encounter with the American West, what animal did he hear the calls of?
(a) Birds.
(b) Elk.
(c) Wolf.
(d) Cows.

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

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

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

8. What did the stone represent on the pipe?
(a) The body.
(b) The blood.
(c) The heart.
(d) The head.

9. After Richard fed the Indians at his New York apartment, one old man stayed at his apartment for how many months?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

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

11. In order for a person to have listened to the story of Much-Blood-Man a person ought to have fasted for how many days?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

12. In the Indian culture, Lame Deer states that clowns had more power than what?
(a) God.
(b) A thunder storm.
(c) The atom bomb.
(d) A poison arrow.

13. What is the name of the the spider-man in Sioux legend?
(a) Iktome.
(b) Mawani.
(c) Gougla.
(d) Wakan.

14. 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?
(a) America.
(b) Spain.
(c) Austria.
(d) France.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When the White Buffalo Woman was addressing the children of the tribe she told them to "remember this and grow up" and do what?

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

4. What did Richard keep doing all the way back to their campsite after his first experience with the American West?

5. When the White Buffalo Woman entered the tipi with the old men of the tribe, what was the only thing they could offer her?

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