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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which South Western City was there a market where rich people could buy all kinds of Indian stuff?
(a) Santa Fe.
(b) El Paso.
(c) San Antonio.
(d) Austin.

2. According to Dan, how do white people learn?
(a) By reading.
(b) By listening.
(c) By experimenting.
(d) By talking.

3. What did Nerburn buy at the local store before proceeding to the old Indian's house?
(a) A pack of chewing gum.
(b) A candy bar.
(c) A pack of Prince Albert tobacco.
(d) A soda.

4. How were the reservations defined on Nerburn's map?
(a) By large black capital letters.
(b) By slightly off-colored squares surrounded by dotted lines.
(c) Each reservation was a different pastel color mass.
(d) They were surrounded by solid red lines.

5. Describe the Hippie man.
(a) He was gaunt with a braided ponytail.
(b) He was fat with two braids.
(c) He was big and brawny with a long straight ponytail.
(d) He was medium-build with long stringy hair.

6. What drug did Nerburn take in the sixties that mimicked the experience Dan had listening to the dead?
(a) LSD.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Speed.
(d) Peyote.

7. What Indian people did Dan say were killing Indians?
(a) The Indians who became rich and moved away.
(b) The Indians who sold the sacred ways.
(c) The Indians who adopted white ways.
(d) The Indians who intermarried with whites.

8. On what reservation had Nerburn worked several years before?
(a) The Red Lake Objibwe Reservation.
(b) The Red Dog Reservation.
(c) The Dakota Black Hills Reservation.
(d) The Sacred Buffalo Reservation,

9. How far apart were the houses in the village?
(a) About a half a mile apart.
(b) About a mile apart.
(c) About a quarter of a mile apart.
(d) About 75 ft. from one another.

10. What tribe of Indians were the cowboys fighting in the movie Grover was watching?
(a) Lakotas.
(b) Comanches.
(c) Navajos.
(d) Apaches.

11. What color was Grover's couch?
(a) Dark red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Brown.

12. What was Nerburn's first inclination to do after leaving his Nissan at Jumbo's?
(a) He wanted to go to the motel and sleep till it was over.
(b) He wanted to take the trip with Grover and Dan.
(c) He wanted to stay in the village and explore it.
(d) He wanted to go to Dan's house and work on the book.

13. What Indian had counseled reaching out a hand of peace to the white people?
(a) Black Stag.
(b) Black Kettle.
(c) Sitting Bull.
(d) Running Horse.

14. What were Dan and Nerburn listening to as they sat on Dan's front porch?
(a) The approach of Grover's car.
(b) The larksong and the morning wind.
(c) Dan's granddaughter singing as she worked.
(d) Fatback's barking.

15. Why didn't Nerburn play cards?
(a) He thought it was a waste of time.
(b) He disapproved of playing cards.
(c) He felt it led to gambling.
(d) He had never learned how to play.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had an old farmer in Bismarck told Nerburn when he asked why he never went east?

2. In what kind of vehicle was the Hippie family traveling?

3. What did Nerburn use to pack his belongings?

4. According to Dan, what did the white man do to the land?

5. When all the sacred Indian ceremonies are gone what will be left according to Dan?

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