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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. Lame Deer states that being a clown brought honor but also what?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Fame.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Shame.
2. How many paths led into the mountain where the wakinyan lived?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.
3. What was the name of Richard Erdoes' wife?
(a) Jasmine.
(b) Jean.
(c) Joan.
(d) Jillian.
4. 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 the top of a high hill.
(b) To an alter to pray.
(c) To their boats by the river.
(d) To a hidden cave in the mountains.
5. 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.
Short Answer Questions
1. The White Buffalo Woman wore a dress made of what?
2. In what year did Richard Erdoes find himself crossing the Atlantic Ocean?
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. Winnetou never killed his enemies but stunned them with what?
5. In the tale about Rabbit Boy, when the rabbit came across a pool of blood, what did he do?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Karl May's favorite Indian hero?
2. Where did Richard Erdoes' Jewish grandfather live and what did he teach Richard?
3. Because of Iktome, the spider man, what did the villagers do to Rabbit Boy?
4. How does Lame Deer liken the sacred pipe to a Sioux person?
5. In the story of the White Buffalo Woman, what did she say kept the tribe alive?
6. Describe how the thunder-beings eventually turned into wakinyan or thunderbirds.
7. What did the substitute dancers in a heyoka ceremony wear?
8. According to legend, where did the Sioux nation come from?
9. What does the great wakinyan or thunderbird of the west look like?
10. What is the story that Lame Deer tells about the heyoka turtle and the heyoka frog?
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