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

2. What Indian people did Dan say were killing Indians?
(a) The Indians who became rich and moved away.
(b) The Indians who adopted white ways.
(c) The Indians who intermarried with whites.
(d) The Indians who sold the sacred ways.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Lakota people call the Creator?

2. How much did Dan's grandmother receive for sitting on a blanket and having her picture taken?

3. What are "pispiza"?

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

5. How did Grover wear his hair?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the telephone call Nerburn got.

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

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

4. Why wasn't Grover bothered by the presence of the Hippies?

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

6. What did Dan tell Nerburn about the prairie dogs?

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

8. 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?

9. What did Dan say about being called an Indian?

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

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