Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions Test | Final Test - Hard

Richard Erdoes
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Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions Test | Final Test - Hard

Richard Erdoes
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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. In what year did Richard Erdoes find himself crossing the Atlantic Ocean?

2. When Richard was arrested by a brutish-looking policeman who took him to a park, the policeman gave him enough money for a third-class ticket to where?

3. When Richard stopped his car during his first encounter with the American West, what animal did he hear the calls of?

4. How many sons did Richard Erdoes have?

5. What did the the heyoka do when he ran up on the bucket of boiling water?

Short Essay Questions

1. Some medicine men have an eagle feather attached to their pipe. Where is the eagle feather attached and why?

2. How did each day end for Richard Erdoes when he lived with his aunt who was a Mohammedan girl from Sarajevo?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did the woman look like that presented the first pipe to the Sioux tribe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 9, Medicine, Good and Bad, Lame Deer talks about the medicine man or wicasa wakan and how they love silence. Why do you think the wicasa wakan had the desire to be by themselves and loved silence? What kinds of experiences did the wicasa wakan have as a result of silence and meditation? How did this bring the wicasa wakan closer to nature and closer to fellow Sioux Indians?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Lame Deer's experience in the vision pit that is mentioned in the beginning of the book. How did this experience transform him from a boy to a man? Use specific information from the book to support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What does Lame Deer mean when he says, "what you see with your eyes shut is what counts"? How does this relate to the medicine man or wicasa wakan? How could it relate to other tribe members or even Lame Deer himself? Describe your thoughts on this statement and explain how it relates to the book and to the reader.

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