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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Narrating the Apocalypse: 10,000 BCE-1890.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Zintkala Nuni or Lost Bird die?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1903.

2. Where was the author raised?
(a) North Dakota.
(b) Minnesota.
(c) Wisconsin.
(d) Wyoming.

3. When did Sitting Bull formally surrender to government forces?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1883.

4. Where was a large homeland secured for the Lakota in the second Treaty of Fort Laramie?
(a) Northwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah.
(b) South Dakota.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Southwestern South Dakota and northern Nebraska.

5. By the late 1870s, approximately how many bison were killed per day?
(a) 7,000.
(b) About 5,000.
(c) 3,200.
(d) Around 4,500.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Columbus land in 1492?

2. When did Columbus make a fourth voyage to the Caribbean?

3. How many years of Indian history does Treuer tell in the book?

4. How many acres of land may have been irrigated by the Hohokam?

5. When did Jack Wilson have a vision of the Ghost Dance?

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