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

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

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

4. What did Dan's Indian friends call Nerburn?
(a) Grizzly Adams.
(b) Intruder.
(c) City boy.
(d) White man.

5. Why did the woman from New York say the Red Road books were not helpful in finding out about the Indians?
(a) The Indians in the book weren't like the "movie Indians."
(b) She didn't trust a book written by a white man.
(c) She didn't care to learn the truth about the Lakota people.
(d) The Indians sounded "flat and uninteresting" in the books.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was inside the three-sided wooden structure Nerburn came across on his motorcycle trip?

2. Why did Dan feel it was stupid to be called an Indian?

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

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

5. What are "pispiza"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. Describe Grover's house.

6. Describe the telephone call Nerburn got.

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

8. Why did Indians wear long hair?

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

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

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