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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Grover describe the coffee he made?
(a) Navy brew.
(b) Java.
(c) Cofffee like his mother had brewed.
(d) Espresso.

2. Where did Eugene's dad live?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Missouri.
(c) Texas.
(d) California.

3. To what was the monument at Wounded Knee dedicated?
(a) The Memory of Chief Black Elk.
(b) The Memory of Chief Lone Wolf.
(c) The Memory of the Big Foot Massacre.
(d) The Memory of Chief Joseph.

4. What did Grover put in his napkin for Fatback?
(a) Rib bones.
(b) A piece of barbequed chicken without the bones.
(c) Part of his cheeseburger.
(d) An edge of his steak sandwich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason did Nerburn give for not wearing a watch?

2. What did Nerburn remember as they drove toward the rocky out croppings?

3. What did Dan take out of the trunk at Wounded Knee?

4. Describe Danelle.

5. What kind of Indians were neither red warriors nor white farmers, neither wolf nor dog?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Annie's yard and other things outside her house.

2. Describe what Dan means when he talks about white mens' cages?

3. Dan said the white people had made them blanket Indians hanging around the trading post for handouts. What did he say they were now?

4. What are some of the bad things the white men did to the Indians?

5. Describe what was on the grassy field below where Dan, Grover and Nerburn were parked in Chapter 12.

6. What did Dan take out of the trunk of the car at Wounded Knee?

7. Describe Annie.

8. What did Dan say one had to do to be like an Indian?

9. Of what did the latticework arch between the pillars at Wounded Knee remind Nerburn?

10. Dan said the trouble wasn't alcohol for the Indians. What did he say the trouble was?

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