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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Annie?
(a) About 59.
(b) Almost as old as Dan.
(c) About 65.
(d) About 55.

2. What does Dan say he sometimes imagines doing in revenge for the whites taking everything sacred to Indians?
(a) Writing Lakota graffiti on churches.
(b) Bulldozing headstones, plowing coffins, putting bones in bags.
(c) Burning bibles.
(d) Disrupting church ceremonies.

3. How did Dan describe the rolling foothills?
(a) Mother earth.
(b) White man's land.
(c) A beautiful place.
(d) Indian land.

4. According to Indians what people are closest to God?
(a) Chiefs and Medicine men.
(b) Teenagers and Indian missionaries.
(c) Babies and old people.
(d) Warriors and Ghost dancers.

5. What did the English want from the Indians?
(a) Land.
(b) Silver.
(c) Gold.
(d) Furs.

6. Why does Dan say he's sorry for saying those things to Nerburn?
(a) It's not good for Indian-White relationships.
(b) It doesn't make any difference in the facts.
(c) He considers Nerburn a friend.
(d) It makes Dan angry and Nerburn feel bad.

7. What was the name of Danelle's mother?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Katherine.
(c) Mary.
(d) Lucille.

8. What did Nerburn remember as they drove toward the rocky out croppings?
(a) His mission.
(b) His conversations with Dan.
(c) His trips to Mt. Rushmore as a child.
(d) His love of the rugged nature of the countryside.

9. What were the seven stars supposed to have taught the Lakota?
(a) How to chant seven prayers.
(b) How to kill seven bears.
(c) How to have seven council fires.
(d) How to have seven children.

10. How was the land to the east of the Missouri river different from the land to the west?
(a) It was a land of dreamers.
(b) It was a land of freedom rather than labor.
(c) It was formed by a glacier.
(d) It was more fertile.

11. What did Grover do when they got back on the road?
(a) He started ranting against the whites.
(b) He called out the signs they passed.
(c) He started telling Lakota legends.
(d) He started singing a Lakota song.

12. What were tied to the lattice work between the arches?
(a) Ragged silk flags.
(b) Small crosses.
(c) White silk handkerchiefs.
(d) Ragged pieces of ribbon.

13. How large was the plot of ground inside the pillars and bordered by cement?
(a) 60 ft. long and 5 ft. wide.
(b) 70 ft. long and 6 ft. wide.
(c) 90 ft. long and 7 ft. wide.
(d) 80 ft. long and 8 ft. wide.

14. In December of what year did the massacre at Wounded Knee take place?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1891.

15. How old was Delvin?
(a) In his early forties.
(b) About 32.
(c) In his late thirties.
(d) In his late twenties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Grover whisper after the ferocious storm had subsided?

2. With whom did Sitting Bull's people join when they went south to avoid the soldiers?

3. What did Bobbie train Fatback to do?

4. What was in front of Sitting Bull's Monument?

5. what did the drunk Indian woman in the restaurant in the Homestead town look like?

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