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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the Indians feel the Creator disapproved of that the white man did?
(a) Dress differently and have different customs.
(b) Make silly, stereotyped Indian movies.
(c) Offer money for land.
(d) Not honor the Indians and their ways.

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

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

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

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

7. According to Dan, what did the white man do to the land?
(a) Turned it into property.
(b) Developed it.
(c) Disrespected it.
(d) Didn't love it.

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

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

10. According to Dan, how do white people learn?
(a) By experimenting.
(b) By talking.
(c) By reading.
(d) By listening.

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

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

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 approach of Grover's car.
(c) Fatback's barking.
(d) The larksong and the morning wind.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Grover's answer when Dan asked him why he didn't have any junk cars in his yard?

2. Describe Nerburn's immediate family.

3. How far apart were the houses in the village?

4. What color was Grover's couch?

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

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