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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dan mention whites would view as an artifact which should be viewed as sacred?

2. With what was Annie working in her lap?

3. What was in front of Sitting Bull's Monument?

4. What shape was Sitting Bull's Monument?

5. What does Dan say he sometimes imagines doing in revenge for the whites taking everything sacred to Indians?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the difference between Lincoln and Jesus in Dan's eyes?

3. Describe the inside of Annie's house.

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

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

6. What is Paha Sapa?

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

8. Describe what was in the bundle Grover took out of his trunk that he and Dan unwrapped in Chapter 12, "Welcome to Our Land"?

9. What did the Indian couple that was in the restaurant in the Homestead town do to disgrace Indians?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of these three topics:

1) What are some of the criticisms Dan had about Nerburn in the chapter, "Welcome to our Land"?

2) What did the grandfathers tell Dan? What did they give him?

3) What gift did the Creator give Dan? What did Dan's father say about the gift?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Describe Annie.

2) Describe Danelle and Delvin.

3) Describe Danelle and Delvin's children.

Essay Topic 3

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Describe the difference between white history and Indian history.

2) Why was Jesus important to Indians?

3) Describe the storm the three men went through sitting in Grover's Buick. How did each of them react to the storm?

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