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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't Nerburn play cards?

2. What did Wenonah suggest Nerburn do?

3. What were the most important assets Nerburn had in writing the book?

4. What was outside of the Old Indian's house?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Indians wear long hair?

3. Describe the telephone call Nerburn got.

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

5. Describe Dan's house.

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

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

8. Describe Grover's house.

9. By what means did white men attempt to exterminate the Indians?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Describe the Homestead town where they stopped.

2) Describe the scene with the drunken Indians in the restaurant.

3) How were Indians turned into victims by white people?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Why did Indian children root for the cowboys in the old Cowboy and Indian movies?

2) What influence did Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show have? What famous Indian was in it? What famous foreign ruler saw it?

3) Describe "movie Indians." What were some of the funny comments made about them by the Indians?

Essay Topic 3

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Describe the difference between white history and Indian history.

2) Why was Jesus important to Indians?

3) Describe the storm the three men went through sitting in Grover's Buick. How did each of them react to the storm?

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