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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. What was the name of Richard Erdoes' wife?
(a) Joan.
(b) Jean.
(c) Jillian.
(d) Jasmine.

2. Lame Deer states that all the Sioux sweat lodges faced what direction?
(a) West.
(b) South.
(c) North.
(d) East.

3. In what year did Richard Erdoes finish High School?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1940.

4. What shoots out from the wakinyan's eyes?
(a) Tears.
(b) Lightning.
(c) Fire.
(d) Smoke.

5. What is the word for clown in the Lakota language?
(a) Sintkala.
(b) Witko.
(c) Noni.
(d) Heyoka.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lame Deer states that those who saw the unktegila went blind for how many days?

2. Why did Richard's aunt from Austria claim all her fleas liked him better?

3. Which entrance did the butterfly guard on the mountain where the wakinyan lived?

4. Lame Deer mentions that sometimes the tonwan or thunderbolt hits something. What does he describe it hitting?

5. If a person would swear by the sacred pipe then they could not do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the place where the wakinyan live.

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

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

4. What does Richard Erdoes say he did as a child when he would attend a "blood opera" with his pals?

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

6. What happened when Richard Erdoes was attending a yuwipi meeting and he asked to take photographs?

7. Because of Iktome, the spider man, what did the villagers do to Rabbit Boy?

8. How did each day end for Richard Erdoes when he lived with his aunt who was a Mohammedan girl from Sarajevo?

9. What does the great wakinyan or thunderbird of the west look like?

10. What happened when Richard Erdoes was arrested by a brutish-looking policeman?

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