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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is waziya?
(a) Wind from the north.
(b) Wind from the west.
(c) Wind from the east.
(d) Wind from the south.

3. What chief in Montana was mentioned?
(a) Chief Black Elk.
(b) Chief Joseph.
(c) Chief Lone Wolf.
(d) Chief Running Bear.

4. What color did Nerburn say the morning sky was?
(a) Light blue.
(b) Rosy.
(c) Lavender.
(d) Red.

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

6. What did Dan do each time he stopped on his walk around the fenced area?
(a) Chanted a prayer in Lakota.
(b) Sang a song in Lakota.
(c) Prayed to the North, South, East and West.
(d) Tied a small cloth bundle from his bag to the fence.

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

8. What was strewn around the base of the obelisk?
(a) Prayer notes.
(b) Wilted flowers.
(c) Plastic bottles and aluminum cans.
(d) Plastic flowers.

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

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

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

12. What kind of Indians were neither red warriors nor white farmers, neither wolf nor dog?
(a) Comanche Indians.
(b) Apache Indians.
(c) Navajo Indians.
(d) All agency Indians.

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

14. What did Grover put in his napkin for Fatback?
(a) An edge of his steak sandwich.
(b) Rib bones.
(c) A piece of barbequed chicken without the bones.
(d) Part of his cheeseburger.

15. About how old was the Indian they picked up on their way to Sitting Bull's Burial Site?
(a) About thirty.
(b) About fifty.
(c) About twenty.
(d) About forty.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How large was the plot of ground inside the pillars and bordered by cement?

4. What did Dan say was the biggest thing to white people?

5. The Catholic church held a conference to determine what about Indians?

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