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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. What did Grover and Dan do as the car passed through the evening landscape?

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

3. What color hatband was on Grover's cowboy hat?

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

5. What did Wenonah suggest Nerburn do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the telephone call Nerburn got.

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

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

4. What was Grover's answer when Dan asked him why he didn't have any junk cars in his yard and what was he referring to?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of these three topics:

1) What are some of the criticisms Dan had about Nerburn in the chapter, "Welcome to our Land"?

2) What did the grandfathers tell Dan? What did they give him?

3) What gift did the Creator give Dan? What did Dan's father say about the gift?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of these questions as essay topics.

1) List and describe all the contents of Dan's shoe boxes. What is their purpose?

2) Describe Grover. How is he important to the book?

3) What did Dan write about how Indians learned about forgiveness from the land in the paper Nerburn read aloud?

Essay Topic 3

Choose two of these questions as essay topics:

1) What stages did the writing of the book go through and what was the final decision on how it should be written?

2) Explain the significance of tobacco and sweet grass to the Indians. What did the Indians do with those two things?

3) Describe the different stages the white men went through in their dealings with the Indians. How did it become worse and worse?

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