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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the oldest dance along with the sun dance in the Sioux culture?
(a) The "Sing to the Rain" dance.
(b) The "Water Comes" dance.
(c) The "Around the Bucket" dance.
(d) The "Into the Sky" dance.

2. Lame Deer states that all the Sioux sweat lodges faced what direction?
(a) South.
(b) North.
(c) West.
(d) East.

3. When Richard had some of his Indian friends visit him in New York, what left the Indians speechless?
(a) The Statue of Liberty.
(b) The hustle and bustle of New Yorkers.
(c) The skyscrapers.
(d) The Atlantic Ocean.

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

5. How many paths led into the mountain where the wakinyan lived?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

6. Where did Richard Erdoes study art?
(a) Salzburg.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Prague.
(d) Linz.

7. When the White Buffalo walked away from the tribe, what was she doing?
(a) Crying.
(b) Gliding.
(c) Flying.
(d) Singing.

8. Richard states in the Epilogue of the book that one kind soul solved his problem of religion by taking him where?
(a) To a Catholic cathedral.
(b) To a rose garden.
(c) To a planetarium.
(d) To an open field of wild flowers.

9. In the story mentioned in the beginning of Blood Turned Into Stone, what made up the large pool of blood?
(a) Blood from the animals killed in the flood.
(b) The tears of the people.
(c) Flesh and bones of the people.
(d) The thunderbird cries and buffalo skin.

10. In what year was Richard sent to do a story on an old mining railroad?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1955.

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

12. Richard told of times when he and a Hungarian peasant girl would eat bacon with a fine powder of what?
(a) Black pepper.
(b) Cinnamon.
(c) Red paprika.
(d) Salt.

13. When Lame Deer talks about a clown going to the store, the clown discovers a can that has a picture of what on it?
(a) A naked chicken.
(b) A pig over a fire pit.
(c) A horse running fast.
(d) A fat puppy.

14. When the earth was young, the Sioux Indians believe that the wakinyan ruled over what?
(a) The land.
(b) The heavens.
(c) The underworld.
(d) The waters.

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

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. In what year did Richard Erdoes finish High School?

3. Winnetou never killed his enemies but stunned them with what?

4. The bowl of the pipe represented what?

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

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