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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 was the Indian philosophy of ownership?
(a) The more things you owned, the better.
(b) No one dare violate one's ownership of something.
(c) If you owned a lot of things others looked up to you,.
(d) You owned it as long as you needed it then passed it on.

2. What did the Lakota people call the Creator?
(a) The Great Spirit.
(b) Watiki Tokan.
(c) Wakan Tanka.
(d) Walka Tenken.

3. What was in the yard to the left of Grover's house?
(a) An old, rusted truck
(b) A small garden.
(c) A wagon wheel.
(d) A perfectly ordered woodpile.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the title of one of the books Nerburn wrote after working on the reservation?

3. Dan's lifestyle was like whose?

4. What does "wakan" mean in English?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Indians wear long hair?

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

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

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

6. Who passed Grover as he drove 45 mph on the trip they were taking?

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

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

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

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

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