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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Paha Sapa?
(a) The Lakota sacred center of the universe.
(b) Mount Rushmore.
(c) The most sacred Lakota prayer.
(d) A Lakota religious ceremony.

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

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

4. What did Dan say Nerburn thought too much about?
(a) Possessions.
(b) Women.
(c) Time.
(d) The weather.

5. The Catholic church held a conference to determine what about Indians?
(a) If they should be allowed to receive Communion.
(b) If they could go to heaven.
(c) Whether they were people or animals.
(d) If intermarriage with white Catholics should be allowed.

6. How many murdered Lakota people were buried at Wounded Knee?
(a) 250.
(b) 200.
(c) 300.
(d) 150.

7. What burial site did they head for after leaving the Homestead town?
(a) Running Wolf's Burial Site.
(b) Black Elk's Burial Site.
(c) Lone Wolf's Burial Site.
(d) Sitting Bull's Burial Site.

8. 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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question did Nerburn ask the Indian which he shouldn't have asked?

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

3. What adjective did Dan use to describe the hills where they were parked?

4. What did Sitting Bull's monument overlook?

5. Why was Sitting Bull great?

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