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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Richard Erdoes' father died how many weeks before he was born?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

6. Lame Deer mentions that sometimes the tonwan or thunderbolt hits something. What does he describe it hitting?
(a) A human.
(b) A horse.
(c) A pig.
(d) A bull.

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

8. Lame Deer describes the heyokas as having rattles made from rows of what?
(a) Warrior beads.
(b) Dried corn husks.
(c) Deer hoofs.
(d) Buffalo horns.

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

10. When Lame Deer received the chance to hold the Ptehincala Huhu Canunpa, what colors of flannel was it wrapped in?
(a) Blue and red.
(b) Yellow and green.
(c) Yellow and blue.
(d) Red and green.

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

12. 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) Austria.
(b) America.
(c) Spain.
(d) France.

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

14. What does the Lakota word, wakinyan mean?
(a) Horses.
(b) Fox.
(c) Buffalo.
(d) Thunderbirds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lame Deer states that those who saw the unktegila went blind for how many days?

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

3. What was an owanka wakan?

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

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

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