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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. Where did Fatback live?

2. How did the Indians measure people when times were bad?

3. What Indian people did Dan say were killing Indians?

4. What did the Lakota people consider a sacred offering?

5. Why did the woman from New York say the Red Road books were not helpful in finding out about the Indians?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Dan's house.

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

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

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

5. What happened to Nerburn's black Nissan truck when he got back in it to drive away?

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

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

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

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 the "wannabe" Hippies they ran into at the truck stop.

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) Write about the silence of Indians vs the talkativeness of white people. Which do you think is better? Why?

2) What explanation did Dan give Nerburn for the junk lying out in front of the Indian village houses?

3) How do Indians and White people view possessions differently?

Essay Topic 3

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Describe the difference between the two sides of the Missouri River.

2) How did Indians view Jesus?

3) Describe Annie's house.

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