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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When all the sacred Indian ceremonies are gone what will be left according to Dan?

2. What did Dan consider bullshit regarding the white people's way of life?

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

4. How old was Grover?

5. What does "wakan" mean in English?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened to Nerburn's black Nissan truck when he got back in it to drive away?

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

4. Describe where Nerburn's Nissan truck ended up.

5. Describe the houses in the Indian village Dan and Nerburn pass on their way to Grover's house.

6. Describe the telephone call Nerburn got.

7. Dan asked Nerburn to read one of the papers he had written using the Elder's notes and clippings. Describe that paper.

8. Describe Dan's house.

9. Describe the "wannabe" Hippies they ran into at the truck stop.

10. Describe the scene in Grover's Buick on the way back that moved Nerburn to tears.

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