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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what year was the book updated?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2004.
(d) 2003.

4. What tribe of Indians were the cowboys fighting in the movie Grover was watching?
(a) Comanches.
(b) Apaches.
(c) Navajos.
(d) Lakotas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are "pispiza"?

2. On what reservation had Nerburn worked several years before?

3. What was Grover doing when Dan and Nerburn came to visit him?

4. What did Wenonah suggest Nerburn do?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was Nerburn sitting in Grover's Buick on the trip he took with Grover and Dan and what was he doing?

2. What were some of the things discussed by Dan and Grover and Nerburn as they watched an old cowboy and Indian movie on television?

3. Why did Kent Nerburn want to write this book?

4. When Nerburn went to Dan's house the next day to tell him he was leaving what did he find?

5. What did Nerburn find when he returned to Dan's house several months later?

6. Describe the landmark Nerburn came upon when riding across North Dakota on his motorcycle.

7. Describe Grover.

8. What was in the shoe boxes Dan gave Nerburn?

9. What was Dan sprinkling into the fire when Nerburn drove up to his house on the next morning in Chapter Two, "Burn Offerings" and what was the significance of this?

10. What were some of the reasons why Nerburn considered going home after his lunch with Grover and Dan?

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