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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the title of one of the books Nerburn wrote after working on the reservation?
(a) The Forgotten People.
(b) To Walk the Red Road.
(c) Tales of the Elders.
(d) Our Mother Earth.

2. What does "wakan" mean in English?
(a) Secret or hidden.
(b) Sacred or filled with power.
(c) Young or innocent.
(d) Far away.

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

4. How did the Indians measure people when times were bad?
(a) By whether they were poor.
(b) By whether they were able to survive.
(c) By how they shared.
(d) By whether they were rich.

5. What was inside the three-sided wooden structure Nerburn came across on his motorcycle trip?
(a) Three stones with Lakota traditions inscribed in them.
(b) A sacred Lakota buffalo rock.
(c) An offering of free fruits and vegetables to passers-by.
(d) A wood carving of a Lakota Indian.

6. Who was in "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show" for awhile?
(a) Lakota elders.
(b) A Navajo medicine man.
(c) Sitting Bull.
(d) Black Elk.

7. Nerburn got a phone call from whom in Chapter 1?
(a) His publisher.
(b) An Indian Elder.
(c) An Indian woman.
(d) His son.

8. From what college did Dan's grandson graduate?
(a) Yale.
(b) North Dakota U.
(c) Notre Dame.
(d) Haskell.

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

10. Where did Fatback live?
(a) In a dirt hollow she had dug beneath the junk car.
(b) Under Dan's front porch.
(c) In the house with Dan.
(d) In an old wooden dog house.

11. What was the Indian philosophy of ownership?
(a) No one dare violate one's ownership of something.
(b) If you owned a lot of things others looked up to you,.
(c) The more things you owned, the better.
(d) You owned it as long as you needed it then passed it on.

12. What sentence, according to Nerburn, sums up America?
(a) "We are number one."
(b) "From sea to shining sea."
(c) "What's in it for me?"
(d) "We are the land of the free."

13. How much did Dan's grandmother receive for sitting on a blanket and having her picture taken?
(a) A nickel.
(b) A quarter.
(c) A dime.
(d) Fifty cents.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Grover's answer when Dan asked him why he didn't have any junk cars in his yard?

2. Who did Nerburn sit next to in the Buick on the trip?

3. What was in the yard to the left of Grover's house?

4. Where was Grover's house located?

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

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