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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was important when Indians fought other Indians?
(a) To kill as many of the other tribe as possible.
(b) To 'count coup.'
(c) To take the other tribe's women as wives.
(d) To take as many prisoners as possible.

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

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

4. What did Nerburn dream about at Wounded Knee?
(a) A Pegasus.
(b) His son.
(c) A multi-colored bird.
(d) A magical deer.

5. What kind of Indians were neither red warriors nor white farmers, neither wolf nor dog?
(a) All agency Indians.
(b) Apache Indians.
(c) Navajo Indians.
(d) Comanche Indians.

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

7. what did the drunk Indian woman in the restaurant in the Homestead town look like?
(a) Skinny in very tight jeans.
(b) Like a movie star Indian with long black hair.
(c) Medium build in jeans and a white shirt.
(d) Fat in a long long Indian skirt.

8. What was the Wanekia?
(a) The Ghost Dancer.
(b) The Messiah.
(c) The devil.
(d) The Creator.

9. How was the land to the east of the Missouri river different from the land to the west?
(a) It was more fertile.
(b) It was formed by a glacier.
(c) It was a land of freedom rather than labor.
(d) It was a land of dreamers.

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

11. What did Dan rebuke Nerburn about in Chapter 12?
(a) Not listening.
(b) Wandering off.
(c) Being too white.
(d) Talking too much.

12. What is waziya?
(a) Wind from the east.
(b) Wind from the west.
(c) Wind from the south.
(d) Wind from the north.

13. What gift did April give Nerburn?
(a) A feather.
(b) A drawing.
(c) Some wild flowers.
(d) A bright stone.

14. What is a wipoye?
(a) An Indian chant.
(b) A dream-catcher.
(c) An Indian wise woman.
(d) A medicine bag.

15. When Delvin asked Nerburn if he was writing a book like Black Elk Speaks, what did he answer?
(a) Maybe, "Black Dog Speaks."
(b) Yes, he was writing a similar book.
(c) "More like Sitting Bull Speaks."
(d) No, his book would be different.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Eugene's dad live?

2. What is Paha Sapa?

3. What was in the small leather bag inside Dan's shirt?

4. How many rooms did Annie's house have?

5. How old is April?

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