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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Lakota people consider a sacred offering?
(a) Maize.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Buffalo hides.
(d) River stones.

2. In which South Western City was there a market where rich people could buy all kinds of Indian stuff?
(a) El Paso.
(b) San Antonio.
(c) Santa Fe.
(d) Austin.

3. What did the Indians feel the Creator disapproved of that the white man did?
(a) Dress differently and have different customs.
(b) Offer money for land.
(c) Make silly, stereotyped Indian movies.
(d) Not honor the Indians and their ways.

4. What did the Lakota people call the Creator?
(a) Watiki Tokan.
(b) The Great Spirit.
(c) Wakan Tanka.
(d) Walka Tenken.

5. What famous person from overseas saw "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show"?
(a) The King of Denmark.
(b) The Queen of England.
(c) The Queen of Belgium.
(d) The King of England.

6. In what year was the book published?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1993.

7. When Dan asked what Gitchi-gumi was, what did Nerburn answer?
(a) Lake Superior.
(b) Lake Michigan.
(c) Lake Huron.
(d) Lake Ontario.

8. Why did Dan feel it was stupid to be called an Indian?
(a) Because it was demeaning.
(b) Because he was really a Native American.
(c) Because Columbus thought he had found the East Indies.
(d) Because it wasn't a Lakota term.

9. What were Dan and Nerburn listening to as they sat on Dan's front porch?
(a) The larksong and the morning wind.
(b) The approach of Grover's car.
(c) Dan's granddaughter singing as she worked.
(d) Fatback's barking.

10. What adjective did Nerburn use to describe what white people thought Indians were with which Dan agreed?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Exotic.
(c) Brave.
(d) Wild.

11. What color hatband was on Grover's cowboy hat?
(a) Navy blue.
(b) Red.
(c) Turquoise.
(d) Green.

12. Who did Nerburn sit next to in the Buick on the trip?
(a) Fatback.
(b) Dan.
(c) Grover.
(d) Nobody.

13. What did Dan's granddaughter put in the breakfast oatmeal?
(a) Milk.
(b) Honey.
(c) Bacon grease.
(d) Sugar.

14. What do white people fear that Indians do not and even cultivate?
(a) Silence.
(b) Jokes.
(c) Legends.
(d) Arguments.

15. What movie star did Dan like?
(a) Roy Rogers.
(b) Hopalong Cassidy.
(c) John Wayne.
(d) Gene Autry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the author doing when the seed for this book was planted in his mind?

2. What kind of horses were all the Indians in the television cowboy movie riding?

3. What color was Grover's couch?

4. What did Dan and Grover say about Jumbo's ability to fix Nerburn's NIssan truck?

5. What is the lie of the good man, according to Dan?

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