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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gift had the Creator given Dan?
(a) To be a good father and grandfather.
(b) To be a brave warrior.
(c) To write.
(d) To put on white man's eyes and see clearly.

2. 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 a land of freedom rather than labor.
(c) It was more fertile.
(d) It was a land of dreamers.

3. How did Danelle's parents die?
(a) They were shot but the police said a car accident.
(b) They were lost and died of starvation.
(c) In an airplane crash.
(d) From smallpox.

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

5. To what did Nerburn compare what was happening on the grassy field below them in Chapter 12?
(a) A musical performance.
(b) A family reunion.
(c) A WWI battle scene.
(d) A medieval battlefield.

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

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

8. What did Nerburn remember as they drove toward the rocky out croppings?
(a) His mission.
(b) His love of the rugged nature of the countryside.
(c) His conversations with Dan.
(d) His trips to Mt. Rushmore as a child.

9. What was the object wrapped in a blanket that Grover took out of his trunk?
(a) An Indian head-dress.
(b) A song book.
(c) A dream-catcher.
(d) A drum.

10. Why was Sitting Bull great?
(a) He didn't rule, he led.
(b) He won many battles.
(c) He hated the white man.
(d) He had a large tribe under him.

11. What was in front of Sitting Bull's Monument?
(a) A garden.
(b) A bench.
(c) A square stone pillar topped by a bust.
(d) A plaque with Sitting Bull's history on it.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Indians what people are closest to God?

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

4. What is Paha Sapa?

5. According to the Lakota, what happened the year the buffalo froze?

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