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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What New England writer did Dan bring up in the conversation?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) Thoreau.
(c) Alcott.
(d) Mary Baker Eddy.

3. What did Nerburn feel was a comfort and protection from the thoughts of the dying women and children at Wounded Knee?
(a) Thoughts of his family.
(b) Memories of a happy childhood.
(c) The smoke from the pipe Dan gave him to smoke.
(d) Thoughts of eternal life.

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

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

6. How tall was the obelisk in the middle of the plot?
(a) Nine feet tall.
(b) Ten feet tall.
(c) Eight feet tall.
(d) Seven feet tall.

7. What was in front of Sitting Bull's Monument?
(a) A garden.
(b) A square stone pillar topped by a bust.
(c) A bench.
(d) A plaque with Sitting Bull's history on it.

8. How many rooms did Annie's house have?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

9. How many people were in the front seat of the pickup?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

10. What do white men want from the Indians now?
(a) Turquoise.
(b) Silver.
(c) Gold.
(d) The minerals and forests.

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

12. Of what did the latticework arch between the two pillars at Wounded Knee remind Nerburn?
(a) The entrance to a rich person's home in the east.
(b) The entrance to a western ranch.
(c) The entrance to amusement parks.
(d) The tracery over Nazi death camps.

13. Whose name was written on another side of the monument?
(a) "Crazy Horse."
(b) "Horncloud."
(c) "Black Elk."
(d) "Stormcloud."

14. What did Dan rebuke Nerburn about in Chapter 12?
(a) Talking too much.
(b) Wandering off.
(c) Being too white.
(d) Not listening.

15. To what was the monument at Wounded Knee dedicated?
(a) The Memory of Chief Joseph.
(b) The Memory of Chief Lone Wolf.
(c) The Memory of the Big Foot Massacre.
(d) The Memory of Chief Black Elk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of Indians were neither red warriors nor white farmers, neither wolf nor dog?

2. What did Dan say Nerburn thought too much about?

3. How many times did Dan take a pinch of tobacco and offer it to the wind?

4. What was the worst thing the white man brought to the Indians according to Dan?

5. About how old was the Indian they picked up on their way to Sitting Bull's Burial Site?

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