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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 what year did Richard Erdoes finish High School?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1935.

2. Richard's grandfather taught him to stay away from what?
(a) Bridges.
(b) Ham.
(c) Dirt.
(d) The Nazis.

3. What did the large pool of blood turn into?
(a) A thunderbird.
(b) Red pipestone.
(c) A sacred statue.
(d) A human.

4. Lame Deer tells a story from the 1920's when an Indian was running away from a bunch of cowboys on horseback who couldn't catch him. How old was the Indian?
(a) In his sixties.
(b) In his twenties.
(c) In his seventies.
(d) In his thirties.

5. What kind of work did Richard do in New York?
(a) He was a painter.
(b) He was an architect.
(c) He was an illustrator.
(d) He was a graphic designer.

Short Answer Questions

1. If a person would swear by the sacred pipe then they could not do what?

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

5. Richard states in the Epilogue of the book that one kind soul solved his problem of religion by taking him where?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Where are the places set aside for surviving buffalo herds, and what does Lame Deer state the buffalo would say if they could speak?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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