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

2. Whose name was written on another side of the monument?

3. What did Dan say Nerburn thought too much about?

4. Who was Crazy Horse?

5. How old was Delvin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Indian couple that was in the restaurant in the Homestead town do to disgrace Indians?

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

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

4. Describe Annie's house.

5. What is Paha Sapa?

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

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

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

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

10. Describe the inside of Annie's house.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of these questions as essay topics:

1) What stages did the writing of the book go through and what was the final decision on how it should be written?

2) Explain the significance of tobacco and sweet grass to the Indians. What did the Indians do with those two things?

3) Describe the different stages the white men went through in their dealings with the Indians. How did it become worse and worse?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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