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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. On what reservation had Nerburn worked several years before?

2. How did Grover wear his hair?

3. What does "wakan" mean in English?

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

5. What did Dan like about Nerburn?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where was Nerburn sitting in Grover's Buick on the trip he took with Grover and Dan and what was he doing?

3. Describe the scene in Grover's Buick on the way back that moved Nerburn to tears.

4. Write some things about Dan's grandson.

5. Describe where Nerburn's Nissan truck ended up.

6. Why did Kent Nerburn want to write this book?

7. Describe Grover's house.

8. Dan asked Nerburn to read one of the papers he had written using the Elder's notes and clippings. Describe that paper.

9. Describe Grover.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of these questions as essay topics.

1) List and describe all the contents of Dan's shoe boxes. What is their purpose?

2) Describe Grover. How is he important to the book?

3) What did Dan write about how Indians learned about forgiveness from the land in the paper Nerburn read aloud?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of these questions as essay topics:

1) What stages did the writing of the book go through and what was the final decision on how it should be written?

2) Explain the significance of tobacco and sweet grass to the Indians. What did the Indians do with those two things?

3) Describe the different stages the white men went through in their dealings with the Indians. How did it become worse and worse?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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