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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the story of Rabbit Boy, there is a boy who states that he has power over Rabbit Boy and that he is going to throw what over him?
(a) A hoop.
(b) A rope.
(c) A blanket.
(d) A net.

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

4. Richard's grandfather taught him to stay away from what?
(a) Bridges.
(b) The Nazis.
(c) Ham.
(d) Dirt.

5. Where did Richard's first encounter with the American West take place?
(a) North Dakota.
(b) New York.
(c) South Dakota.
(d) Maine.

6. What was the color of the buckskin that Rabbit boy wore?
(a) Green.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

7. When Lame Deer talks about a clown going to the store, the clown discovers a can that has a picture of what on it?
(a) A naked chicken.
(b) A pig over a fire pit.
(c) A horse running fast.
(d) A fat puppy.

8. Lame Deer tells a story from the 1920's when an Indian was running away from a bunch of cowboys on horseback who couldn't catch him. How old was the Indian?
(a) In his twenties.
(b) In his thirties.
(c) In his sixties.
(d) In his seventies.

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

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

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

12. At the beginning of Chapter 15, Lame Deer states that he was going to tell a story that wouldn't be funny. The story was about what?
(a) Clowns.
(b) Indians.
(c) Birds.
(d) Buffalo.

13. Richard's Catholic aunt in Austria went to early Mass each morning at what time?
(a) 5 A.M.
(b) 6 A.M.
(c) 8 A.M.
(d) 7 A.M.

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

15. How did a clown ride his horse?
(a) Backward.
(b) Standing up.
(c) Sidesaddle.
(d) Slowly.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In what year did Richard Erdoes find himself crossing the Atlantic Ocean?

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

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