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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. Lame Deer states that the egg from which all the thunderbirds are hatched is bigger than what?

2. Lame describes a time when a friend of his went to the rock quarry to pick out stone. The park ranger said he could take out a pound for how much?

3. What saved a young beautiful woman from the immense flood?

4. What did the the heyoka do when he ran up on the bucket of boiling water?

5. What did the large pool of blood turn into?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did the woman look like that presented the first pipe to the Sioux tribe?

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

5. Some medicine men have an eagle feather attached to their pipe. Where is the eagle feather attached and why?

6. Who was Karl May's favorite Indian hero?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Lame Deer's experience in the vision pit that is mentioned in the beginning of the book. How did this experience transform him from a boy to a man? Use specific information from the book to support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What does Lame Deer mean when he says, "what you see with your eyes shut is what counts"? How does this relate to the medicine man or wicasa wakan? How could it relate to other tribe members or even Lame Deer himself? Describe your thoughts on this statement and explain how it relates to the book and to the reader.

Essay Topic 3

In the book, Lame Deer mentions that sometimes parents wanted their daughters to marry a famous chief but sometimes their daughter had her heart set on someone else. Sometimes the daughters would elope. Why do you think the tribe and parents approved of this union after the couple returned from their elopement? Why wasn't the arranged marriage forced by the parents and tribe? How did this help unity of families and the tribe as a whole?

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