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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. Of what piece of music was Nerburn reminded as they drove through the deepening evening?

2. On what kind of sandwich did Grover often make for which Dan complimented him?

3. What tribe of Indians were the cowboys fighting in the movie Grover was watching?

4. According to Dan, what did the white man do to the land?

5. What was the Indian philosophy of ownership?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Grover.

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

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

6. Write some things about Dan's grandson.

7. Describe Grover's house.

8. Why wasn't Grover bothered by the presence of the Hippies?

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

10. Describe the houses in the Indian village Dan and Nerburn pass on their way to Grover's house.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Describe the Hippie family they saw at the truck stop. What indicated they were "Wannabes"? Why did they make Dan nervous but not Grover?

2) Which group, the HIppies or the Yuppies, did Dan dislike more? Why?

3) When the three were on the road again, what was it that Dan and Grover did that brought Nerburn to tears? To what did he compare it in his past?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Describe the difference between white history and Indian history.

2) Why was Jesus important to Indians?

3) Describe the storm the three men went through sitting in Grover's Buick. How did each of them react to the storm?

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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