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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the worst thing the white man brought to the Indians according to Dan?
(a) Boarding schools for their children.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Small pox.
(d) Gambling.

2. What was important when Indians fought other Indians?
(a) To kill as many of the other tribe as possible.
(b) To take as many prisoners as possible.
(c) To take the other tribe's women as wives.
(d) To 'count coup.'

3. What racial slur did Nerburn overhear in the Homestead town restaurant?
(a) "Prairie NIggers."
(b) "Red Skins."
(c) "Savages."
(d) "Half-breeds."

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

5. Why couldn't Dan speak or write, according to the grandfathers?
(a) He had married a white woman.
(b) He had too much anger.
(c) He hadn't graduated from Haskell.
(d) He wasn't poetic enough.

6. What was the song that Dan chanted about?
(a) Great Indian chiefs.
(b) Anger and tears.
(c) Indian legends.
(d) It was an Indian love song.

7. 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.

8. What gift did April give Nerburn?
(a) Some wild flowers.
(b) A feather.
(c) A bright stone.
(d) A drawing.

9. What did Grover whisper after the ferocious storm had subsided?
(a) "The Storm Chief."
(b) "The Winged One."
(c) "Thank you Great Creator."
(d) "Wakan Tanka."

10. What is a wipoye?
(a) A medicine bag.
(b) An Indian wise woman.
(c) A dream-catcher.
(d) An Indian chant.

11. What shape was Sitting Bull's Monument?
(a) It was an incribed bench.
(b) It was a square stone building.
(c) It was a Mausoleum.
(d) It was an Obelisk.

12. What did Grover sprinkle in the fire that the bad spirits hated?
(a) Evergreen needles.
(b) Sage.
(c) Clover.
(d) Thistles.

13. How did Grover describe the coffee he made?
(a) Cofffee like his mother had brewed.
(b) Espresso.
(c) Navy brew.
(d) Java.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color was Delvin's and Danelle's pickup?

2. How old was Delvin?

3. How many rooms did Annie's house have?

4. What did Sitting Bull's monument overlook?

5. What did the French want from the Indians?

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