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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year was the book published?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1994.

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

4. The Indians Grover was watching on television looked like what nationality?
(a) Italians.
(b) Spaniards.
(c) Mexicans.
(d) Puerto Ricans.

5. Why did Dan feel it was stupid to be called an Indian?
(a) Because he was really a Native American.
(b) Because it wasn't a Lakota term.
(c) Because it was demeaning.
(d) Because Columbus thought he had found the East Indies.

6. How did Grover wear his hair?
(a) Long and straggly hanging loose.
(b) In a pony tail.
(c) In a crew cut.
(d) Medium length parted at the side.

7. What Indian had counseled reaching out a hand of peace to the white people?
(a) Black Stag.
(b) Black Kettle.
(c) Sitting Bull.
(d) Running Horse.

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

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

10. What criticisms did Grover have for the first chapters Nerburn wrote?
(a) They were not authentic and full of lies.
(b) They sounded too much like stories of "movie Indians."
(c) They were too short and used large words.
(d) They were too poetic and fancy.

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

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

13. How did the Indians measure people when times were bad?
(a) By whether they were rich.
(b) By how they shared.
(c) By whether they were poor.
(d) By whether they were able to survive.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what college did Dan's grandson graduate?

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

4. What sentence, according to Nerburn, sums up America?

5. According to Dan, how do white people learn?

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