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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dan and Grover say about Jumbo's ability to fix Nerburn's NIssan truck?
(a) They said he'd never be able to fix it.
(b) They said he'd fix it and rent it out till Nerburn returned.
(c) They said he'd probably sell it.
(d) They said he'd either fix it or kill it.

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

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

4. 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) Grover drove but Dan fell asleep.
(d) They started telling jokes about white people.

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

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

7. How old was Grover?
(a) In his late thirties.
(b) In his late forties.
(c) In his early sixties.
(d) In his late fifties.

8. What are "pispiza"?
(a) Prairie dogs.
(b) Cherokee Indians.
(c) Lakota elders.
(d) Sweet grasses.

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

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

11. What kind of truck did Nerburn own?
(a) A Nissan.
(b) A Buick.
(c) A Toyota.
(d) A Ford.

12. What was Nerburn's first inclination to do after leaving his Nissan at Jumbo's?
(a) He wanted to go to Dan's house and work on the book.
(b) He wanted to stay in the village and explore it.
(c) He wanted to take the trip with Grover and Dan.
(d) He wanted to go to the motel and sleep till it was over.

13. What did the Lakota people consider a sacred offering?
(a) Buffalo hides.
(b) River stones.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Maize.

14. What was the only sign of industriousness that could be seen in the village?
(a) The gardens behind each house.
(b) The cleanly swept sidewalks in front of the houses.
(c) The men working on their cars.
(d) The line of laundry flapping in the wind behind each house.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the old Indian's dog?

3. What did Nerburn use to pack his belongings?

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

5. What did the guys in Grover's unit call him when he was in Korea?

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