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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. 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?
(a) Birds.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Indians.
(d) Clowns.

2. The White Buffalo Woman wore a dress made of what?
(a) White feathers.
(b) White silk.
(c) White buckskin.
(d) White quills.

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

4. Where did Richard Erdoes study art?
(a) Linz.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Salzburg.
(d) Prague.

5. In what year was Richard sent to do a story on an old mining railroad?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1951.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story of Richard and his friends writing a clandestine paper, how much were the costs for the parents of the condemned boy?

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

3. The second thunderbird who was red, has wings with how many joints?

4. The substitute dancers that helped the heyokas put grass in what two places?

5. How many children did Richard and his wife have?

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

3. What does Lame Deer state the old people used to say about damage caused by lightning?

4. Where did Richard Erdoes' Jewish grandfather live and what did he teach Richard?

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

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

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

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

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

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