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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. Richard Erdoes' father died how many weeks before he was born?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.
2. What kind of work did Richard do in New York?
(a) He was a painter.
(b) He was a graphic designer.
(c) He was an architect.
(d) He was an illustrator.
3. What shoots out from the wakinyan's eyes?
(a) Tears.
(b) Lightning.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Fire.
4. Lame Deer states that being a clown brought honor but also what?
(a) Shame.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Fame.
(d) Guilt.
5. Richard's Catholic aunt in Austria went to early Mass each morning at what time?
(a) 6 A.M.
(b) 7 A.M.
(c) 5 A.M.
(d) 8 A.M.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who did Richard Erdoes claim was responsible for he and his pals attending "blood operas"?
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?
3. When Lame Deer talks about a clown going to the store, the clown discovers a can that has a picture of what on it?
4. Where did Richard Erdoes study art?
5. What was an owanka wakan?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Richard Erdoes say he did as a child when he would attend a "blood opera" with his pals?
2. Why would it make a sick person happy to hear a heyoka tell them that they are going to die?
3. What does Lame Deer state the old people used to say about damage caused by lightning?
4. How does Richard Erdoes describe the prairie of South Dakota?
5. Describe how the thunder-beings eventually turned into wakinyan or thunderbirds.
6. In the story of the White Buffalo Woman, what did she say kept the tribe alive?
7. Describe the place where the wakinyan live.
8. What does the great wakinyan or thunderbird of the west look like?
9. What is the story that Lame Deer tells about the heyoka turtle and the heyoka frog?
10. What happened when Richard Erdoes was arrested by a brutish-looking policeman?
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