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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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."

2. To what did Grover compare the white man's religious Communion in the Lakota society?
(a) Sweetgrass.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Maize.
(d) The spring crop.

3. What did Grover insist they order at the truck stop?
(a) Fried eggs and bacon.
(b) Bacon double cheeseburgers and fries.
(c) Pancakes and sausages.
(d) Bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches and fries.

4. What color was Grover's Buick?
(a) Gold.
(b) Black.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

5. What Indian had counseled reaching out a hand of peace to the white people?
(a) Sitting Bull.
(b) Black Stag.
(c) Black Kettle.
(d) Running Horse.

6. On what reservation had Nerburn worked several years before?
(a) The Dakota Black Hills Reservation.
(b) The Red Dog Reservation.
(c) The Sacred Buffalo Reservation,
(d) The Red Lake Objibwe Reservation.

7. Dan's lifestyle was like whose?
(a) His granddaughter's.
(b) Grover's.
(c) Fatack's.
(d) The Lakota tribe's.

8. What were the most important assets Nerburn had in writing the book?
(a) Dan's notes and clippings in the shoebox.
(b) His love and respect of Indians.
(c) His previous experience with the Lakota.
(d) The pen and the tape recorder.

9. What did Grover and Dan do as the car passed through the evening landscape?
(a) They sang plaintive, warbling songs in Lakota.
(b) They whispered seeming secrets in Lakota.
(c) They started telling jokes about white people.
(d) Grover drove but Dan fell asleep.

10. What adjective did Nerburn use to describe what white people thought Indians were with which Dan agreed?
(a) Exotic.
(b) Wild.
(c) Brave.
(d) Dangerous.

11. What color hatband was on Grover's cowboy hat?
(a) Red.
(b) Turquoise.
(c) Navy blue.
(d) Green.

12. Where was Grover's house located?
(a) In the middle of the village.
(b) On the other side of the village.
(c) In the next village.
(d) Down the road from Dan's house.

13. What were Dan and Nerburn listening to as they sat on Dan's front porch?
(a) Dan's granddaughter singing as she worked.
(b) The larksong and the morning wind.
(c) Fatback's barking.
(d) The approach of Grover's car.

14. What did Dan's Indian friends call Nerburn?
(a) City boy.
(b) White man.
(c) Grizzly Adams.
(d) Intruder.

15. What Indian people did Dan say were killing Indians?
(a) The Indians who became rich and moved away.
(b) The Indians who sold the sacred ways.
(c) The Indians who intermarried with whites.
(d) The Indians who adopted white ways.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was in "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show" for awhile?

2. What was the Indian philosophy of ownership?

3. How do Dan and the Lakota people feel about being called Indians?

4. What tribe of Indians were the cowboys fighting in the movie Grover was watching?

5. What drug did Nerburn take in the sixties that mimicked the experience Dan had listening to the dead?

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