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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 did Dan and Grover say about Jumbo's ability to fix Nerburn's NIssan truck?

2. Where did Fatback live?

3. How old was Grover?

4. To what did Grover compare the white man's religious Communion in the Lakota society?

5. What sentence, according to Nerburn, sums up America?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the landmark Nerburn came upon when riding across North Dakota on his motorcycle.

2. What did Dan give Nerburn and what did Nerburn do with them?

3. By what means did white men attempt to exterminate the Indians?

4. Who was the white lady Grover mentioned and what had she wanted to do?

5. What did Dan say about being called an Indian?

6. What was in the shoe boxes Dan gave Nerburn?

7. What happened to Nerburn's black Nissan truck when he got back in it to drive away?

8. What was Grover's answer when Dan asked him why he didn't have any junk cars in his yard and what was he referring to?

9. Describe the "wannabe" Hippies they ran into at the truck stop.

10. When Nerburn went to Dan's house the next day to tell him he was leaving what did he find?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Describe the Hippie family they saw at the truck stop. What indicated they were "Wannabes"? Why did they make Dan nervous but not Grover?

2) Which group, the HIppies or the Yuppies, did Dan dislike more? Why?

3) When the three were on the road again, what was it that Dan and Grover did that brought Nerburn to tears? To what did he compare it in his past?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Describe the difference between the two sides of the Missouri River.

2) How did Indians view Jesus?

3) Describe Annie's house.

Essay Topic 3

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Explain how Dan felt about being called Indian. Did he object? Would he rather be called a Native American?

2) What did Dan have to say about the origin of Indians? Did he agree they came across a land bridge over the Bering Strait? What reasons did he give?

3) How did Dan say the Europeans exterminate Indians?

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