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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Bobbie train Fatback to do?
(a) Stay.
(b) Roll over.
(c) Speak.
(d) Sit up.

2. Where did Nerburn sleep when he was at Annie's house?
(a) In a hammock in the yard.
(b) On a bed in the yard.
(c) In the back room of the house.
(d) In the Buick.

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

4. What adjective did Dan use to describe the hills where they were parked?
(a) Inspiring.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Entrancing.
(d) Alive.

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

6. What was good after the terrible storm?
(a) Everyone was hungry.
(b) A double rainbow.
(c) Grover said a prayer in Lakota.
(d) Fresh winds from a different direction.

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

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

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

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

11. Describe Danelle.
(a) Medium-build and not very attractive.
(b) Skinny with the gaunt beauty of a bar queen.
(c) Plump with bright shiny black eyes.
(d) Voluptuous with a movie star's beauty.

12. According to the Lakota, what happened the year the buffalo froze?
(a) The wolves howled every night.
(b) A lot of stars fell.
(c) Many Indian children died.
(d) There was a late frost.

13. What question did Nerburn ask the Indian which he shouldn't have asked?
(a) He asked the Indian how old he was.
(b) He asked the Indian if he was a Lakota.
(c) He asked the Indian what tribe he was from.
(d) He asked whether the Indian was going to the burial site.

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

15. Where did Eugene's dad live?
(a) California.
(b) Texas.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Kansas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the song that Dan chanted about?

2. How many murdered Lakota people were buried at Wounded Knee?

3. Why was Sitting Bull great?

4. Whose name was written on another side of the monument?

5. What burial site did they head for after leaving the Homestead town?

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