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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children did Richard and his wife have?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Two.

2. What was Rabbit Boy's buckskin decorated with?
(a) Horse teeth.
(b) Eagle feathers.
(c) Buffalo skin.
(d) Porcupine quills.

3. When Richard stopped his car during his first encounter with the American West, what animal did he hear the calls of?
(a) Wolf.
(b) Birds.
(c) Elk.
(d) Cows.

4. Richard's Catholic aunt in Austria went to early Mass each morning at what time?
(a) 7 A.M.
(b) 6 A.M.
(c) 8 A.M.
(d) 5 A.M.

5. What made the first sound that was heard on earth?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) The howling of the wind pipe.
(c) Thunder.
(d) The call of the thunderbird egg.

6. What is the name of the the spider-man in Sioux legend?
(a) Mawani.
(b) Wakan.
(c) Gougla.
(d) Iktome.

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

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

9. What was the name of Winnetou's sidekick?
(a) Old Horse boy.
(b) Old Pacekeeper.
(c) Old cowboy guns.
(d) Old Shatterhand.

10. What did Richard keep doing all the way back to their campsite after his first experience with the American West?
(a) Whistling.
(b) Humming.
(c) Singing.
(d) Snapping his gum.

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

12. In the story of Rabbit Boy, there is a boy who states that he has power over Rabbit Boy and that he is going to throw what over him?
(a) A hoop.
(b) A rope.
(c) A blanket.
(d) A net.

13. In the Indian culture, Lame Deer states that clowns had more power than what?
(a) A thunder storm.
(b) The atom bomb.
(c) A poison arrow.
(d) God.

14. Winnetou never killed his enemies but stunned them with what?
(a) The butt of his rifle.
(b) A horseshoe.
(c) A blow from his fists.
(d) His powerful rope.

15. Where did Richard's first encounter with the American West take place?
(a) South Dakota.
(b) Maine.
(c) North Dakota.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Richard had some of his Indian friends visit him in New York, what left the Indians speechless?

2. Who did Richard Erdoes claim was responsible for he and his pals attending "blood operas"?

3. Winnetou's sidekick was a German what?

4. Lame Deer tells a story from the 1920's when an Indian was running away from a bunch of cowboys on horseback who couldn't catch him. How old was the Indian?

5. In order for a person to have listened to the story of Much-Blood-Man a person ought to have fasted for how many days?

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