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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dan particularly not like about Hippies?
(a) Their bad manners.
(b) That they took drugs.
(c) That they practiced free love.
(d) The Hippie hand shake.

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

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

4. What had an old farmer in Bismarck told Nerburn when he asked why he never went east?
(a) He said, "I can't afford the trip."
(b) He said, "It's too expensive in the east."
(c) He said, "there are too many big cities in the east."
(d) He said "nah, trees make me nervous."

5. Describe the Hippie man.
(a) He was big and brawny with a long straight ponytail.
(b) He was gaunt with a braided ponytail.
(c) He was fat with two braids.
(d) He was medium-build with long stringy hair.

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

7. Why did the Lakota Elder want to talk with Nerburn?
(a) He wanted to invite him to a pow wow.
(b) He was curious about Nerburn's interest in the Lakota.
(c) He was interested in white people.
(d) He had seen the two books Nerburn had written.

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

9. 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 pack of chewing gum.
(c) A soda.
(d) A candy bar.

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

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

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

13. What was in the yard to the left of Grover's house?
(a) An old, rusted truck
(b) A wagon wheel.
(c) A perfectly ordered woodpile.
(d) A small garden.

14. 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.

15. What drug did Nerburn take in the sixties that mimicked the experience Dan had listening to the dead?
(a) LSD.
(b) Peyote.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Speed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what piece of music was Nerburn reminded as they drove through the deepening evening?

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

3. What was the author doing when the seed for this book was planted in his mind?

4. What did Dan's Indian friends call Nerburn?

5. What adjective did Nerburn use to describe what white people thought Indians were with which Dan agreed?

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