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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. What did the smoke rising from the pipe represent?
2. How many paths led into the mountain where the wakinyan lived?
3. Winnetou never killed his enemies but stunned them with what?
4. When Richard fed about sixty Indians in his New York apartment in 1967, how many of those Indians had come to participate in a peace march with Martin Luther King?
5. Lame Deer describes the heyokas as having rattles made from rows of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe how the thunder-beings eventually turned into wakinyan or thunderbirds.
2. Describe the Odenwald Schule that Richard Erdoes attended for two years.
3. How does Lame Deer suggest that mankind can get back on the red road of the pipe or the road of life?
4. What did the woman look like that presented the first pipe to the Sioux tribe?
5. Why would it make a sick person happy to hear a heyoka tell them that they are going to die?
6. According to Sioux legend, where did the blood-red rock found in the southwest corner of Minnesota come from?
7. How does Lame Deer liken the sacred pipe to a Sioux person?
8. What does the great wakinyan or thunderbird of the west look like?
9. Some medicine men have an eagle feather attached to their pipe. Where is the eagle feather attached and why?
10. What happened when Richard Erdoes was arrested by a brutish-looking policeman?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
According to Lame Deer, what are the evils that come from the "green frog skin"? Do you agree with Lame Deer's view on money? Why or why not? What other evils did the white man bring to the Indian culture? Use specific examples from the book to support your ideas.
Essay Topic 2
Describe how Lame Deer's ancestors and immediate family influenced him in his life and made him into the person he was.
Essay Topic 3
Lame Deer went through a period in his life when he was searching for himself. Describe the process of Lame Deer discovering his true self. What experiences did Lame Deer have to help him discover who he was meant to be? Were there any influential people that helped Lame Deer on his path to discovery? If so, who were they?
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