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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. Describe the Hippie man.

2. What sentence, according to Nerburn, sums up America?

3. What did Dan's Indian friends call Nerburn?

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

5. What color was Grover's Buick?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe Dan's house.

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

9. 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?

10. Describe Grover's house.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Explain how Dan felt about being called Indian. Did he object? Would he rather be called a Native American?

2) What did Dan have to say about the origin of Indians? Did he agree they came across a land bridge over the Bering Strait? What reasons did he give?

3) How did Dan say the Europeans exterminate Indians?

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 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?

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