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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, Dan and Nerburn have for lunch at Grover's house?

2. What was the name of the old Indian's dog?

3. In what year was the book updated?

4. What color was Grover's couch?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did Kent Nerburn want to write this book?

6. Describe the landmark Nerburn came upon when riding across North Dakota on his motorcycle.

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

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

9. Write some things about Dan's grandson.

10. 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?

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 white men choose freedom and Indians choose honor to worship? Discuss the cages Dan brought up. Are white men really free?

2) How did Dan describe the treaties which were offered to the Indians?

3) How did the whites use words against the Indians?

Essay Topic 3

Choose two of these three topics:

1) How did the Indians treat white men when they first came to Indian land? How did white men -- French, Spanish and English -- treat the Indians?

2) What kind of a ride did they have after Nerburn asked to make a phone call and Grover said "short cut"? Why did Grover call his car "Shunka kan"?

3) What did Dan reveal about "Tatanka," the buffalo which they spotted on the side of a hill?

4) Choose two of the topics to write on.

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