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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Dan and the Lakota people feel about being called Indians?
(a) They are fighting mad.
(b) They are amused.
(c) They don't care about something like a name.
(d) They are highly insulted.

2. What color was Nerburn's truck?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

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

4. Where was Grover's house located?
(a) On the other side of the village.
(b) In the next village.
(c) Down the road from Dan's house.
(d) In the middle of the village.

5. What are "pispiza"?
(a) Cherokee Indians.
(b) Lakota elders.
(c) Prairie dogs.
(d) Sweet grasses.

6. What did Dan like about Nerburn?
(a) He was quiet.
(b) He was thoughtful.
(c) He wasn't trying to be an Indian.
(d) He was polite.

7. In what year was the book updated?
(a) 2004.
(b) 2001.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2003.

8. What did the Lakota people consider a sacred offering?
(a) Buffalo hides.
(b) River stones.
(c) Maize.
(d) Tobacco.

9. What was the only sign of industriousness that could be seen in the village?
(a) The men working on their cars.
(b) The cleanly swept sidewalks in front of the houses.
(c) The line of laundry flapping in the wind behind each house.
(d) The gardens behind each house.

10. According to Dan, the Creator love the smell of what?
(a) The spring prairie flowers.
(b) Sweet grass sprinkled into a fire.
(c) The Indian camp fire.
(d) The spring rain.

11. What was Grover's answer when Dan asked him why he didn't have any junk cars in his yard?
(a) I don't have a dog.
(b) That's what being in the service did to me.
(c) I like a neat yard.
(d) I don't like junk.

12. According to Dan, what did the white man do to the land?
(a) Didn't love it.
(b) Developed it.
(c) Disrespected it.
(d) Turned it into property.

13. On what kind of sandwich did Grover often make for which Dan complimented him?
(a) Tuna fish sandwich.
(b) Peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
(c) Baloney sandwich.
(d) Roast Beef sandwich.

14. What color hatband was on Grover's cowboy hat?
(a) Red.
(b) Turquoise.
(c) Green.
(d) Navy blue.

15. To what did Grover compare the white man's religious Communion in the Lakota society?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Sweetgrass.
(c) Maize.
(d) The spring crop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Indians feel the Creator disapproved of that the white man did?

2. When was a man supposed to wear an eagle feather?

3. What was the name of the old Indian's dog?

4. How old was Grover?

5. How did Grover wear his hair?

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