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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Indians feel the Creator disapproved of that the white man did?
(a) Offer money for land.
(b) Make silly, stereotyped Indian movies.
(c) Dress differently and have different customs.
(d) Not honor the Indians and their ways.

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

3. About how much did Jumbo the car mechanic weigh?
(a) Well over 400 lbs.
(b) 500 lbs.
(c) 295 lbs.
(d) Well over 350 lbs.

4. What did Dan's granddaughter put in the breakfast oatmeal?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Milk.
(c) Honey.
(d) Bacon grease.

5. What was Grover doing when Dan and Nerburn came to visit him?
(a) Reading one of Nerburn's books.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Fixing his Buick.
(d) Watching a black and white cowboy movie on television.

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

7. The Indians Grover was watching on television looked like what nationality?
(a) Mexicans.
(b) Spaniards.
(c) Italians.
(d) Puerto Ricans.

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

9. What did Dan and Grover say about Jumbo's ability to fix Nerburn's NIssan truck?
(a) They said he'd probably sell it.
(b) They said he'd fix it and rent it out till Nerburn returned.
(c) They said he'd never be able to fix it.
(d) They said he'd either fix it or kill it.

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

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

12. Who did Nerburn sit next to in the Buick on the trip?
(a) Fatback.
(b) Grover.
(c) Nobody.
(d) Dan.

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

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

15. Why did Dan feel it was stupid to be called an Indian?
(a) Because he was really a Native American.
(b) Because it wasn't a Lakota term.
(c) Because Columbus thought he had found the East Indies.
(d) Because it was demeaning.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Nerburn's first inclination to do after leaving his Nissan at Jumbo's?

3. What color was Grover's Buick?

4. What was the Indian philosophy of ownership?

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

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