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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. What saved a young beautiful woman from the immense flood?
(a) An eagle.
(b) A buffalo.
(c) The Great Spirit.
(d) A thunderbird.

2. How many sons did Richard Erdoes have?
(a) Three.
(b) None.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

3. In the story of Richard and his friends writing a clandestine paper, how much were the costs for the parents of the condemned boy?
(a) 300 dollars.
(b) 900 dollars.
(c) 500 dollars.
(d) 800 dollars.

4. Lame Deer states that being a clown brought honor but also what?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Fame.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Shame.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What shoots out from the wakinyan's eyes?

2. What types of birds did Richard spend a lot of time with in the aviary?

3. What is the word for clown in the Lakota language?

4. Winnetou never killed his enemies but stunned them with what?

5. When a clown was fooling around he was really performing what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the thunder-beings eventually turned into wakinyan or thunderbirds.

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

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

4. What did the substitute dancers in a heyoka ceremony wear?

5. What did the woman look like that presented the first pipe to the Sioux tribe?

6. What does Lame Deer state the old people used to say about damage caused by lightning?

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

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

9. Before Richard Erdoes met his Indian friends, what did he do in New York?

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

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