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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why didn't Nerburn play cards?
(a) He thought it was a waste of time.
(b) He disapproved of playing cards.
(c) He felt it led to gambling.
(d) He had never learned how to play.

2. What was the Indian philosophy of ownership?
(a) You owned it as long as you needed it then passed it on.
(b) If you owned a lot of things others looked up to you,.
(c) No one dare violate one's ownership of something.
(d) The more things you owned, the better.

3. What sentence, according to Nerburn, sums up America?
(a) "From sea to shining sea."
(b) "We are number one."
(c) "We are the land of the free."
(d) "What's in it for me?"

4. How far apart were the houses in the village?
(a) About 75 ft. from one another.
(b) About a quarter of a mile apart.
(c) About a mile apart.
(d) About a half a mile apart.

5. What did the Lakota people call the Creator?
(a) Watiki Tokan.
(b) Walka Tenken.
(c) The Great Spirit.
(d) Wakan Tanka.

6. To what did Grover compare the white man's religious Communion in the Lakota society?
(a) Sweetgrass.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) The spring crop.
(d) Maize.

7. 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, a small blond daughter and a teenage boy.
(d) A wife and two teenage sons.

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

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

10. Why does Dan feel he should forgive the white man?
(a) He pities the white man as an inferior being.
(b) He feels he might do what they did if in their place.
(c) He feels he has no alternative but to forgive.
(d) The land, the mountain and forest teach him to heal and forgive.

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

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

13. On what reservation had Nerburn worked several years before?
(a) The Dakota Black Hills Reservation.
(b) The Red Dog Reservation.
(c) The Red Lake Objibwe Reservation.
(d) The Sacred Buffalo Reservation,

14. When was a man supposed to wear an eagle feather?
(a) During a Pow Wow.
(b) When he earned it in battle or a veteran gave it to him.
(c) When his mother gave it to him.
(d) When he found it in nature.

15. What did the guys in Grover's unit call him when he was in Korea?
(a) Chief.
(b) Lakota.
(c) Indian.
(d) Red man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Wenonah suggest Nerburn do?

2. What request did the Indian woman have when she called Nerburn?

3. What did the Indians feel the Creator disapproved of that the white man did?

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

5. Describe the Hippie man.

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