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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 many hunters were sent out who discovered the White Buffalo Woman?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

2. Lame Deer described the prayer he usually said when he was crying for a vision. He asked the Great Spirit to pity him so that what may occur?
(a) The land might grow.
(b) He might receive his vision.
(c) His people may live.
(d) The white people will learn.

3. Winnetou never killed his enemies but stunned them with what?
(a) A blow from his fists.
(b) A horseshoe.
(c) The butt of his rifle.
(d) His powerful rope.

4. In what year did Richard Erdoes find himself crossing the Atlantic Ocean?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1939.

5. Lame Deer states that those who saw the unktegila went blind for how many days?
(a) Ten.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twety.
(d) One.

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 an owanka wakan?

3. Lame Deer describes the heyokas as having rattles made from rows of what?

4. In what year did Richard Erdoes finish High School?

5. What was the name of Winnetou's sidekick?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In the story of the White Buffalo Woman, what did she say kept the tribe alive?

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

4. What did Richard Erdoes see when he rushed to the window and looked outside on his first day in New York City?

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

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

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

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

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

10. When Lame Deer tried to describe a thunderbird, why did he say that could not do it?

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