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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

6. What did Sitting Bull's monument overlook?
(a) A Homestead town.
(b) A Lakota settlement.
(c) The Missouri River Valley.
(d) The Kansas plains.

7. What color was Delvin's and Danelle's pickup?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

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

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

10. Who was Crazy Horse?
(a) A famous Apache Chief.
(b) A famous Cherokee Chief.
(c) Sitting Bull's enemy.
(d) An Indian leader immortalized in a sculpture.

11. What was in the small leather bag inside Dan's shirt?
(a) A small silver picture frame with a picture of Bobbie in it.
(b) An Indian charm.
(c) A turquoise ring.
(d) A stone.

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

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

14. What was the name of Danelle's mother?
(a) Katherine.
(b) Mary.
(c) Lucille.
(d) Elizabeth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A flash of lightning illuminated a billboard with a quote from what book in the Bible?

2. What did Bobbie train Fatback to do?

3. What did Grover do when they got back on the road?

4. What shape was Sitting Bull's Monument?

5. What gift did April give Nerburn?

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