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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 sons did Richard Erdoes have?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) None.

2. In the story of Rabbit Boy, what came down to make the pieces of Rabbit Boy disappear?
(a) A giant thunderbird.
(b) Rain.
(c) A cloud.
(d) Hail.

3. Lame Deer tells of a convention that he went to and brought his pipe, which everyone smoked. How long had Lame Deer had this particular pipe?
(a) More than thirty years.
(b) More than fifty years.
(c) More than forty years.
(d) More than thirty five years.

4. The bowl of the pipe represented what?
(a) The head.
(b) The feet.
(c) The body.
(d) The hands.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Lakota word, wakinyan mean?

3. What is the word for clown in the Lakota language?

4. 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?

5. Richard's Catholic aunt in Austria went to early Mass each morning at what time?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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