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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 Dan consider bullshit regarding the white people's way of life?
2. What did Dan's Indian friends call Nerburn?
3. What kind of horses were all the Indians in the television cowboy movie riding?
4. What was the Indian philosophy of ownership?
5. What did Dan and Grover say about Jumbo's ability to fix Nerburn's NIssan truck?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Nerburn find when he returned to Dan's house several months later?
2. Why did Kent Nerburn want to write this book?
3. 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?
4. Describe Grover's house.
5. What did Dan tell Nerburn about the prairie dogs?
6. When Nerburn went to Dan's house the next day to tell him he was leaving what did he find?
7. By what means did white men attempt to exterminate the Indians?
8. Who was the white lady Grover mentioned and what had she wanted to do?
9. Where was Nerburn sitting in Grover's Buick on the trip he took with Grover and Dan and what was he doing?
10. What was in the shoe boxes Dan gave Nerburn?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
1) Why did Nerburn decide to write Neither Wolf Nor Dog? What did he hope the book would do?
2) Describe Dan and Wenonah.
3) Why did Dan choose Nerburn to write the book?
4) Answer two of the three questions.
Essay Topic 2
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?
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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