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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. The second thunderbird who was red, has wings with how many joints?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Eight.

2. What did the name of the Itazipcho tribe mean?
(a) Without Bows.
(b) With Spirit.
(c) With Honor.
(d) Without Guns.

3. When Lame Deer received the chance to hold the Ptehincala Huhu Canunpa, what colors of flannel was it wrapped in?
(a) Red and green.
(b) Yellow and green.
(c) Blue and red.
(d) Yellow and blue.

4. In the Indian culture, Lame Deer states that clowns had more power than what?
(a) A poison arrow.
(b) God.
(c) The atom bomb.
(d) A thunder storm.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the tale about Rabbit Boy, when the rabbit came across a pool of blood, what did he do?

2. What was the great wakinyan of the west clothed in?

3. When the earth was young, the Sioux Indians believe that the wakinyan ruled over what?

4. What kind of work did Richard do in New York?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. Describe the place where the wakinyan live.

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

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

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