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

2. What reason did Nerburn give for not wearing a watch?
(a) They feel heavy on the wrist.
(b) They make him nervous.
(c) He keeps losing them.
(d) They make him too aware of time.

3. How many dogs did Annie have?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

4. What question did Nerburn ask the Indian which he shouldn't have asked?
(a) He asked the Indian how old he was.
(b) He asked whether the Indian was going to the burial site.
(c) He asked the Indian if he was a Lakota.
(d) He asked the Indian what tribe he was from.

5. The Catholic church held a conference to determine what about Indians?
(a) Whether they were people or animals.
(b) If they could go to heaven.
(c) If intermarriage with white Catholics should be allowed.
(d) If they should be allowed to receive Communion.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what was Annie working in her lap?

2. What was strewn around the base of the obelisk?

3. How large was the plot of ground inside the pillars and bordered by cement?

4. Where did Eugene's dad live?

5. What was important when Indians fought other Indians?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Name some of the signs along the road in Chapter 22.

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

4. What did Dan answer when Nerburn asked him if the Pow Wow was their destination?

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

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

7. What stood in the middle of the plot that was through the pillars?

8. How do whites treat history of Lincoln differently than the history of Jesus?

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

10. Why was Thoreau mentioned in the conversation?

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