View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the White Buffalo Woman entered the tipi with the old men of the tribe, what was the only thing they could offer her?
(a) Buffalo hide.
(b) Dog meat.
(c) Deer meat.
(d) Water.

2. Richard told of times when he and a Hungarian peasant girl would eat bacon with a fine powder of what?
(a) Red paprika.
(b) Salt.
(c) Cinnamon.
(d) Black pepper.

3. What was an owanka wakan?
(a) A sacred hollow tree.
(b) A sacred earth altar.
(c) A sacred water bridge.
(d) A sacred pipe cover.

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

5. 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 a hidden cave in the mountains.
(b) To their boats by the river.
(c) To an alter to pray.
(d) To the top of a high hill.

Short Answer Questions

1. The bowl of the pipe represented what?

2. What saved a young beautiful woman from the immense flood?

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. 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?

5. What did the large pool of blood turn into?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Richard Erdoes describe the prairie of South Dakota?

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

3. What happened when Richard Erdoes was attending a yuwipi meeting and he asked to take photographs?

4. What did Iktome, the spider man, decide to do after he discovered that Rabbit Boy had come back to life and gone up with the clouds?

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

6. What does Richard Erdoes say he did as a child when he would attend a "blood opera" with his pals?

7. Describe the place where the wakinyan live.

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

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

10. Where did Richard Erdoes' Jewish grandfather live and what did he teach Richard?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 858 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample