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

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

3. What was the name of Winnetou's sidekick?
(a) Old Shatterhand.
(b) Old cowboy guns.
(c) Old Horse boy.
(d) Old Pacekeeper.

4. Where does Lame Deer state that too many of the Sioux Indian things wind up?
(a) In museums.
(b) In the trash.
(c) Lost in nature.
(d) Lost to those who don't believe.

5. Richard states in the Epilogue of the book that one kind soul solved his problem of religion by taking him where?
(a) To a rose garden.
(b) To an open field of wild flowers.
(c) To a Catholic cathedral.
(d) To a planetarium.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story of Richard and his friends writing a clandestine paper, how much were the costs for the parents of the condemned boy?

2. How many years did Richard go to the Odenwald Schule?

3. In what year was Richard sent to do a story on an old mining railroad?

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

5. The birds that Richard spent time with ate raw hamburger out of his hand along with fragments of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the story that Lame Deer tells about the heyoka turtle and the heyoka frog?

4. How did each day end for Richard Erdoes when he lived with his aunt who was a Mohammedan girl from Sarajevo?

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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