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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had an old farmer in Bismarck told Nerburn when he asked why he never went east?
(a) He said "nah, trees make me nervous."
(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, "I can't afford the trip."

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

3. Nerburn got a phone call from whom in Chapter 1?
(a) His publisher.
(b) His son.
(c) An Indian woman.
(d) An Indian Elder.

4. What were Dan and Nerburn listening to as they sat on Dan's front porch?
(a) The larksong and the morning wind.
(b) Dan's granddaughter singing as she worked.
(c) Fatback's barking.
(d) The approach of Grover's car.

5. Who did Nerburn sit next to in the Buick on the trip?
(a) Nobody.
(b) Grover.
(c) Fatback.
(d) Dan.

6. Where did Fatback live?
(a) In the house with Dan.
(b) Under Dan's front porch.
(c) In an old wooden dog house.
(d) In a dirt hollow she had dug beneath the junk car.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Where was Grover's house located?
(a) On the other side of the village.
(b) In the middle of the village.
(c) In the next village.
(d) Down the road from Dan's house.

15. What adjective did Nerburn use to describe what white people thought Indians were with which Dan agreed?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Exotic.
(c) Wild.
(d) Brave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What criticisms did Grover have for the first chapters Nerburn wrote?

2. According to Dan, the Creator love the smell of what?

3. When Dan asked what Gitchi-gumi was, what did Nerburn answer?

4. What did Nerburn buy at the local store before proceeding to the old Indian's house?

5. What did Dan particularly not like about Hippies?

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