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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the the heyoka do when he ran up on the bucket of boiling water?
(a) Threw the water into the air.
(b) Spilled the water into a cold river.
(c) Poured the water over his head.
(d) Plunged his bare arm into the water.

2. What was Rabbit Boy's buckskin decorated with?
(a) Horse teeth.
(b) Eagle feathers.
(c) Porcupine quills.
(d) Buffalo skin.

3. Where did Richard Erdoes study art?
(a) Vienna.
(b) Linz.
(c) Prague.
(d) Salzburg.

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

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

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

7. Richard states in the Epilogue of the book that one kind soul solved his problem of religion by taking him where?
(a) To a Catholic cathedral.
(b) To a rose garden.
(c) To an open field of wild flowers.
(d) To a planetarium.

8. What is the word for clown in the Lakota language?
(a) Noni.
(b) Witko.
(c) Heyoka.
(d) Sintkala.

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

10. Lame Deer described the prayer he usually said when he was crying for a vision. He asked the Great Spirit to pity him so that what may occur?
(a) The white people will learn.
(b) The land might grow.
(c) His people may live.
(d) He might receive his vision.

11. 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) Two dollars.
(b) A dollar.
(c) Five dollars.
(d) Ten dollars.

12. In the tale about Rabbit Boy, when the rabbit came across a pool of blood, what did he do?
(a) He scooped it up in a cup to keep.
(b) He hopped over it and didn't look back.
(c) He gave it the shape of a human being.
(d) He spread it out into a larger pool.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the earth was young, the Sioux Indians believe that the wakinyan ruled over what?

3. How many paths led into the mountain where the wakinyan lived?

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

5. Winnetou never killed his enemies but stunned them with what?

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