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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 were Dan and Nerburn listening to as they sat on Dan's front porch?
(a) Fatback's barking.
(b) The larksong and the morning wind.
(c) The approach of Grover's car.
(d) Dan's granddaughter singing as she worked.

2. Why didn't Nerburn play cards?
(a) He felt it led to gambling.
(b) He had never learned how to play.
(c) He disapproved of playing cards.
(d) He thought it was a waste of time.

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

4. What drug did Nerburn take in the sixties that mimicked the experience Dan had listening to the dead?
(a) LSD.
(b) Peyote.
(c) Speed.
(d) Marijuana.

5. How did Nerburn feel when he was among the Indians?
(a) Angry and aggressive.
(b) Happy and honored.
(c) Curious and defensive.
(d) Anxious and fearful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dan feel he should forgive the white man?

2. What Indian had counseled reaching out a hand of peace to the white people?

3. Why did the Lakota Elder want to talk with Nerburn?

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

5. Dan's lifestyle was like whose?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Dan give Nerburn and what did Nerburn do with them?

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. Describe the telephone call Nerburn got.

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

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

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

10. Describe Grover.

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