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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) "From sea to shining sea."
(b) "We are the land of the free."
(c) "We are number one."
(d) "What's in it for me?"

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

3. Describe Nerburn's immediate family.
(a) A wife, a teenage daughter and a young boy.
(b) A wife and two teenage daughters.
(c) A wife and two teenage sons.
(d) A wife, a small blond daughter and a teenage boy.

4. What did the Lakota word "wasichu" mean in English?
(a) Elder.
(b) Dog.
(c) Danger.
(d) White man.

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

6. What did Wenonah suggest Nerburn do?
(a) Sleep under the car.
(b) Become an honorary member of the Lakota tribe.
(c) Give up writing the book.
(d) Start cooking the meals for her and Dan.

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

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

9. How fast did Grover drive his Buick?
(a) He crept along at about 30 miles per hour.
(b) He drove about 60 miles per hour.
(c) He seldom drove over 45 miles per hour.
(d) He drove at exactly the speed limit.

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

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

12. When all the sacred Indian ceremonies are gone what will be left according to Dan?
(a) Their sorrows.
(b) Their hearts.
(c) Their families.
(d) Their memories.

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

14. What was Grover's answer when Dan asked him why he didn't have any junk cars in his yard?
(a) I don't like junk.
(b) I don't have a dog.
(c) I like a neat yard.
(d) That's what being in the service did to me.

15. What was the name of the old Indian's dog?
(a) Old Faithful.
(b) Fatback.
(c) Round Tummy.
(d) Old Yeller.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what reservation had Nerburn worked several years before?

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

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

4. What color hatband was on Grover's cowboy hat?

5. What famous person from overseas saw "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show"?

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