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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people smoked Lame Deer's pipe that he brought to the convention mentioned in Blood Turned Into Stone?
(a) 175.
(b) 203.
(c) 161.
(d) 182.

2. Richard's grandfather taught him to stay away from what?
(a) Dirt.
(b) The Nazis.
(c) Bridges.
(d) Ham.

3. When Lame Deer received the chance to hold the Ptehincala Huhu Canunpa, what colors of flannel was it wrapped in?
(a) Yellow and blue.
(b) Red and green.
(c) Yellow and green.
(d) Blue and red.

4. What was the great wakinyan of the west clothed in?
(a) Clouds.
(b) Feathers.
(c) Quills.
(d) Smoke.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many hunters were sent out who discovered the White Buffalo Woman?

2. What animal guarded the west entrance to the mountain where the wakinyan lived?

3. In the tale about Rabbit Boy, when the rabbit came across a pool of blood, what did he do?

4. What does the name of the pipe, Ptehincala Huhu Canunpa mean?

5. Lame Deer states that all the Sioux sweat lodges faced what direction?

Short Essay Questions

1. Because of Iktome, the spider man, what did the villagers do to Rabbit Boy?

2. How does Richard Erdoes describe the prairie of South Dakota?

3. When Lame Deer tried to describe a thunderbird, why did he say that could not do it?

4. Describe how the thunder-beings eventually turned into wakinyan or thunderbirds.

5. Where did Richard Erdoes' Jewish grandfather live and what did he teach Richard?

6. What did Iktome, the spider man, decide to do after he discovered that Rabbit Boy had come back to life and gone up with the clouds?

7. What does Lame Deer state the old people used to say about damage caused by lightning?

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

9. Describe the place where the wakinyan live.

10. What is the story that Lame Deer tells about the heyoka turtle and the heyoka frog?

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