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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Nerburn buy at the local store before proceeding to the old Indian's house?
(a) A pack of Prince Albert tobacco.
(b) A soda.
(c) A candy bar.
(d) A pack of chewing gum.

3. Of what piece of music was Nerburn reminded as they drove through the deepening evening?
(a) Mozart's Coronation Mass.
(b) Handel's Messiah.
(c) Bach's B Minor Mass.
(d) Telemann's C Minor Mass.

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

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

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

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

8. 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) She didn't trust a book written by a white man.
(c) The Indians in the book weren't like the "movie Indians."
(d) The Indians sounded "flat and uninteresting" in the books.

9. What color was Nerburn's truck?
(a) Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

10. In which South Western City was there a market where rich people could buy all kinds of Indian stuff?
(a) Santa Fe.
(b) Austin.
(c) San Antonio.
(d) El Paso.

11. What criticisms did Grover have for the first chapters Nerburn wrote?
(a) They were too poetic and fancy.
(b) They were not authentic and full of lies.
(c) They sounded too much like stories of "movie Indians."
(d) They were too short and used large words.

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

13. What was the author doing when the seed for this book was planted in his mind?
(a) Day-dreaming about Indians and their values.
(b) Re-reading the other books he had written about Indians.
(c) Sitting on his front porch watching the sun set.
(d) Riding his motorcycle across North Dakota in August.

14. What is the lie of the good man, according to Dan?
(a) A white lie.
(b) Changing the subject of the conversation.
(c) Silence.
(d) A confession of ignorance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Indian philosophy of ownership?

2. What did Grover, Dan and Nerburn have for lunch at Grover's house?

3. In what kind of vehicle was the Hippie family traveling?

4. What were the most important assets Nerburn had in writing the book?

5. What did Grover insist they order at the truck stop?

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