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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 24 through 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are "pispiza"?
(a) Cherokee Indians.
(b) Lakota elders.
(c) Prairie dogs.
(d) Sweet grasses.

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

3. How do Dan and the Lakota people feel about being called Indians?
(a) They are highly insulted.
(b) They are amused.
(c) They are fighting mad.
(d) They don't care about something like a name.

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

5. What was the name of the old Indian's dog?
(a) Fatback.
(b) Round Tummy.
(c) Old Yeller.
(d) Old Faithful.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In December of what year did the massacre at Wounded Knee take place?

3. How were the reservations defined on Nerburn's map?

4. What were tied to the lattice work between the arches?

5. What famous person from overseas saw "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show"?

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