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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. What kind of work did Richard do in New York?
(a) He was an architect.
(b) He was an illustrator.
(c) He was a painter.
(d) He was a graphic designer.

2. Lame Deer mentions that sometimes the tonwan or thunderbolt hits something. What does he describe it hitting?
(a) A human.
(b) A bull.
(c) A horse.
(d) A pig.

3. 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?
(a) 60.
(b) 20.
(c) 26.
(d) 15.

4. 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 planetarium.
(c) To an open field of wild flowers.
(d) To a rose garden.

5. How did a clown ride his horse?
(a) Backward.
(b) Sidesaddle.
(c) Standing up.
(d) Slowly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the smoke rising from the pipe represent?

2. What shoots out from the wakinyan's eyes?

3. Lame Deer states that being a clown brought honor but also what?

4. What was Rabbit Boy's buckskin decorated with?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. According to legend, where did the Sioux nation come from?

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

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

4. Describe the Odenwald Schule that Richard Erdoes attended for two years.

5. 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?

6. What does Richard Erdoes say he did as a child when he would attend a "blood opera" with his pals?

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

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

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

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

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