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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. How did Grover describe the coffee he made?

2. What burial site did they head for after leaving the Homestead town?

3. What kind of Indians were neither red warriors nor white farmers, neither wolf nor dog?

4. What did Grover sprinkle in the fire that the bad spirits hated?

5. How many people were in the front seat of the pickup?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Dan say one had to do to be like an Indian?

2. The monument at Wounded Knee was erected in memory of what?

3. Describe what was on the grassy field below where Dan, Grover and Nerburn were parked in Chapter 12.

4. Describe what was in the bundle Grover took out of his trunk that he and Dan unwrapped in Chapter 12, "Welcome to Our Land"?

5. Describe the Homestead town they visited in Chapter 15.

6. Name some of the signs along the road in Chapter 22.

7. Describe Annie's house.

8. Dan said the trouble wasn't alcohol for the Indians. What did he say the trouble was?

9. How do whites treat history of Lincoln differently than the history of Jesus?

10. Describe Annie's yard and other things outside her 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 three topics:

1) Why did white men choose freedom and Indians choose honor to worship? Discuss the cages Dan brought up. Are white men really free?

2) How did Dan describe the treaties which were offered to the Indians?

3) How did the whites use words against the Indians?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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