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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The birds that Richard spent time with ate raw hamburger out of his hand along with fragments of what?
(a) His own finger tips.
(b) Peanuts.
(c) Ham.
(d) Bird seed.

2. How many sons did Richard Erdoes have?
(a) Two.
(b) None.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

3. At the beginning of Blood Turned Into Stone, Lame Deer talks about the people who inhabited this land a long time ago trying to save themselves from an immense flood by going where?
(a) To an alter to pray.
(b) To the top of a high hill.
(c) To their boats by the river.
(d) To a hidden cave in the mountains.

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

5. In the story of Rabbit Boy, what came down to make the pieces of Rabbit Boy disappear?
(a) Hail.
(b) A giant thunderbird.
(c) A cloud.
(d) Rain.

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

7. Lame Deer tells of a convention that he went to and brought his pipe, which everyone smoked. How long had Lame Deer had this particular pipe?
(a) More than thirty years.
(b) More than thirty five years.
(c) More than fifty years.
(d) More than forty years.

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

9. The second thunderbird who was red, has wings with how many joints?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Eight.

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

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

12. Lame Deer states that all the Sioux sweat lodges faced what direction?
(a) North.
(b) East.
(c) West.
(d) South.

13. What made the first sound that was heard on earth?
(a) The call of the thunderbird egg.
(b) Thunder.
(c) The howling of the wind pipe.
(d) An earthquake.

14. What saved a young beautiful woman from the immense flood?
(a) An eagle.
(b) A thunderbird.
(c) A buffalo.
(d) The Great Spirit.

15. What did the large pool of blood turn into?
(a) A human.
(b) A thunderbird.
(c) Red pipestone.
(d) A sacred statue.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many children did Richard and his wife have?

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

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

5. Lame Deer states in Blood Turned Into Stone that all Indian wisdom could be known through what?

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