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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

2. One clown was called Heyoka Osni which means what?
(a) The cold fool.
(b) The fleeing feet.
(c) The sluggish man.
(d) The happy cheerful.

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

4. What types of birds did Richard spend a lot of time with in the aviary?
(a) Eagles.
(b) Sparrows.
(c) Hawks.
(d) Owls.

5. What did Richard keep doing all the way back to their campsite after his first experience with the American West?
(a) Snapping his gum.
(b) Singing.
(c) Humming.
(d) Whistling.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the White Buffalo walked away from the tribe, what was she doing?

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

3. 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?

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

5. Why did Richard's aunt from Austria claim all her fleas liked him better?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe some of the strange things that a heyoka, or clown does.

2. Describe the Odenwald Schule that Richard Erdoes attended for two years.

3. In the story of the White Buffalo Woman, what did she say kept the tribe alive?

4. What does the great wakinyan or thunderbird of the west look like?

5. Describe the place where the wakinyan live.

6. How does Lame Deer suggest that mankind can get back on the red road of the pipe or the road of life?

7. How does Lame Deer liken the sacred pipe to a Sioux person?

8. According to Sioux legend, where did the blood-red rock found in the southwest corner of Minnesota come from?

9. Who was Karl May's favorite Indian hero?

10. Some medicine men have an eagle feather attached to their pipe. Where is the eagle feather attached and why?

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