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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 was in the small leather bag inside Dan's shirt?

2. What did Dan do each time he stopped on his walk around the fenced area?

3. How many murdered Lakota people were buried at Wounded Knee?

4. How many times did Dan take a pinch of tobacco and offer it to the wind?

5. What were tied to the lattice work between the arches?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Danelle and Delvin, Dan's other granddaughter and her husband.

2. What is Paha Sapa?

3. What did Dan take out of the trunk of the car at Wounded Knee?

4. Dan said the white people had made them blanket Indians hanging around the trading post for handouts. What did he say they were now?

5. Describe the inside of Annie's house.

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

7. How did the storm affect the three men?

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

9. Describe Annie's yard and other things outside her house.

10. What did Dan answer when Nerburn asked him if the Pow Wow was their destination?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of these three topics:

1) How can a white person become like an Indian, according to Dan?

2) `Discuss the reasons Dan rebuked Nerburn for asking the Indian they picked up whether he was going to Sitting Bull's Memorial? How did it relate to how Southerners still view the Civil War?

3) Describe Sitting Bull and then tell about his murder. Why was he a great leader?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Why was Nerburn having second thoughts about the projects? What did he do about this?

2) What was wrong with Nerburn's Nissan truck? Where did he take it to be fixed? Describe the garage and mechanic.

3) Describe the vehicles Grover passed on the trip he, Dan and Nerburn were taking. What are some of the bumper stickers they had?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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