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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What kind of truck did Nerburn own?
(a) A Nissan.
(b) A Toyota.
(c) A Ford.
(d) A Buick.
2. According to Dan, the Creator love the smell of what?
(a) The Indian camp fire.
(b) Sweet grass sprinkled into a fire.
(c) The spring rain.
(d) The spring prairie flowers.
3. What Indian had counseled reaching out a hand of peace to the white people?
(a) Running Horse.
(b) Black Kettle.
(c) Black Stag.
(d) Sitting Bull.
4. What did Dan like about Nerburn?
(a) He was thoughtful.
(b) He wasn't trying to be an Indian.
(c) He was quiet.
(d) He was polite.
5. What sentence, according to Nerburn, sums up America?
(a) "We are number one."
(b) "What's in it for me?"
(c) "From sea to shining sea."
(d) "We are the land of the free."
6. What is the lie of the good man, according to Dan?
(a) A white lie.
(b) Changing the subject of the conversation.
(c) A confession of ignorance.
(d) Silence.
7. What request did the Indian woman have when she called Nerburn?
(a) She asked him if she could visit him.
(b) She asked him to visit her grandfather, an Elder.
(c) She asked him to speak to her grandfather on the phone,.
(d) She asked him to sell her his two books.
8. What was the Indian philosophy of ownership?
(a) No one dare violate one's ownership of something.
(b) The more things you owned, the better.
(c) You owned it as long as you needed it then passed it on.
(d) If you owned a lot of things others looked up to you,.
9. What was the author doing when the seed for this book was planted in his mind?
(a) Riding his motorcycle across North Dakota in August.
(b) Re-reading the other books he had written about Indians.
(c) Day-dreaming about Indians and their values.
(d) Sitting on his front porch watching the sun set.
10. How did Grover wear his hair?
(a) Long and straggly hanging loose.
(b) Medium length parted at the side.
(c) In a pony tail.
(d) In a crew cut.
11. When all the sacred Indian ceremonies are gone what will be left according to Dan?
(a) Their families.
(b) Their sorrows.
(c) Their memories.
(d) Their hearts.
12. How old was Grover?
(a) In his late thirties.
(b) In his late forties.
(c) In his early sixties.
(d) In his late fifties.
13. What drug did Nerburn take in the sixties that mimicked the experience Dan had listening to the dead?
(a) Peyote.
(b) LSD.
(c) Speed.
(d) Marijuana.
14. Why did the woman from New York say the Red Road books were not helpful in finding out about the Indians?
(a) She didn't care to learn the truth about the Lakota people.
(b) The Indians in the book weren't like the "movie Indians."
(c) She didn't trust a book written by a white man.
(d) The Indians sounded "flat and uninteresting" in the books.
15. 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 don't like junk.
(d) I like a neat yard.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Dan consider bullshit regarding the white people's way of life?
2. What did Nerburn buy at the local store before proceeding to the old Indian's house?
3. What was the name of the old Indian's dog?
4. Why did Dan feel it was stupid to be called an Indian?
5. What was outside of the Old Indian's house?
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