Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was the Wanekia?
(a) The Messiah.
(b) The Creator.
(c) The Ghost Dancer.
(d) The devil.
2. When Delvin asked Nerburn if he was writing a book like Black Elk Speaks, what did he answer?
(a) "More like Sitting Bull Speaks."
(b) Yes, he was writing a similar book.
(c) No, his book would be different.
(d) Maybe, "Black Dog Speaks."
3. What was the worst thing the white man brought to the Indians according to Dan?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Boarding schools for their children.
(c) Small pox.
(d) Gambling.
4. What did Dan rebuke Nerburn about in Chapter 12?
(a) Not listening.
(b) Wandering off.
(c) Talking too much.
(d) Being too white.
5. What was good after the terrible storm?
(a) Grover said a prayer in Lakota.
(b) Everyone was hungry.
(c) A double rainbow.
(d) Fresh winds from a different direction.
6. How many murdered Lakota people were buried at Wounded Knee?
(a) 200.
(b) 150.
(c) 300.
(d) 250.
7. What did Sitting Bull's monument overlook?
(a) The Kansas plains.
(b) A Lakota settlement.
(c) A Homestead town.
(d) The Missouri River Valley.
8. What color was Delvin's and Danelle's pickup?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.
9. The Catholic church held a conference to determine what about Indians?
(a) If they should be allowed to receive Communion.
(b) Whether they were people or animals.
(c) If they could go to heaven.
(d) If intermarriage with white Catholics should be allowed.
10. What did Nerburn feel was a comfort and protection from the thoughts of the dying women and children at Wounded Knee?
(a) Thoughts of eternal life.
(b) The smoke from the pipe Dan gave him to smoke.
(c) Memories of a happy childhood.
(d) Thoughts of his family.
11. What kind of Indians were neither red warriors nor white farmers, neither wolf nor dog?
(a) Apache Indians.
(b) All agency Indians.
(c) Comanche Indians.
(d) Navajo Indians.
12. What did Dan say Nerburn thought too much about?
(a) The weather.
(b) Possessions.
(c) Women.
(d) Time.
13. According to Indians what people are closest to God?
(a) Chiefs and Medicine men.
(b) Warriors and Ghost dancers.
(c) Babies and old people.
(d) Teenagers and Indian missionaries.
14. What was the song that Dan chanted about?
(a) Indian legends.
(b) Anger and tears.
(c) It was an Indian love song.
(d) Great Indian chiefs.
15. How many times did Dan take a pinch of tobacco and offer it to the wind?
(a) Four times.
(b) Seven times.
(c) Three times.
(d) Six times.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Grover sprinkle in the fire that the bad spirits hated?
2. What color did Nerburn say the morning sky was?
3. What is Paha Sapa?
4. What does Dan say he sometimes imagines doing in revenge for the whites taking everything sacred to Indians?
5. What gift did April give Nerburn?
This section contains 457 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |