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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 tells the story of the heyoka turtle and the heyoka frog in Chapter 16. At the beginning of the story, what were they sitting on?
(a) A rock.
(b) A log.
(c) A patch of grass.
(d) A lillypad.

2. Richard Erdoes' father died how many weeks before he was born?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

3. How many children did Richard and his wife have?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

4. Lame Deer states that the egg from which all the thunderbirds are hatched is bigger than what?
(a) A mountain.
(b) New York City.
(c) A mountain lake.
(d) South Dakota.

5. Lame Deer mentions that sometimes the tonwan or thunderbolt hits something. What does he describe it hitting?
(a) A human.
(b) A bull.
(c) A pig.
(d) A horse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many people smoked Lame Deer's pipe that he brought to the convention mentioned in Blood Turned Into Stone?

3. What did a heyoka ceremony start with?

4. What is the oldest dance along with the sun dance in the Sioux culture?

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Lame Deer say is the reason that one loud clap of thunder is heard followed by smaller rumblings?

7. 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?

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

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

10. Why would it make a sick person happy to hear a heyoka tell them that they are going to die?

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