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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 the Lakota people consider a sacred offering?

2. What was the Indian philosophy of ownership?

3. Nerburn got a phone call from whom in Chapter 1?

4. What criticisms did Grover have for the first chapters Nerburn wrote?

5. What did the Indians feel the Creator disapproved of that the white man did?

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. Describe the telephone call Nerburn got.

3. Where was Nerburn sitting in Grover's Buick on the trip he took with Grover and Dan and what was he doing?

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

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

6. Describe Dan's house.

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

8. Describe Grover's house.

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

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

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 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.

Essay Topic 3

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Describe Annie.

2) Describe Danelle and Delvin.

3) Describe Danelle and Delvin's children.

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