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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Richard was driving through the plains on his first encounter with the American West, what were the houses surrounded by?
2. When the earth was young, the Sioux Indians believe that the wakinyan ruled over what?
3. At the beginning of Blood Turned Into Stone, Lame Deer talks about the people who inhabited this land a long time ago trying to save themselves from an immense flood by going where?
4. When Richard was arrested by a brutish-looking policeman who took him to a park, the policeman gave him enough money for a third-class ticket to where?
5. What kind of work did Richard do in New York?
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 did the woman look like that presented the first pipe to the Sioux tribe?
3. What does Richard Erdoes say he did as a child when he would attend a "blood opera" with his pals?
4. Because of Iktome, the spider man, what did the villagers do to Rabbit Boy?
5. What does Lame Deer say is the reason that one loud clap of thunder is heard followed by smaller rumblings?
6. What happened when Richard Erdoes was arrested by a brutish-looking policeman?
7. Describe how the thunder-beings eventually turned into wakinyan or thunderbirds.
8. According to legend, where did the Sioux nation come from?
9. When Lame Deer tried to describe a thunderbird, why did he say that could not do it?
10. Why would it make a sick person happy to hear a heyoka tell them that they are going to die?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe how Lame Deer's ancestors and immediate family influenced him in his life and made him into the person he was.
Essay Topic 2
Describe the struggles and experiences that Lame Deer went through that helped him become insightful and respectful of the Sioux culture.
Essay Topic 3
At the end of Chapter 16, Lame Deer says that "we can teach each other to see through the cloud of pollution that politicians, industrialists, and technical experts see as 'reality' ". Describe what Lame Deer is talking about when he mentions a cloud of pollution. What examples does Lame Deer describe of this pollution in the book?
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