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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 the name of Danelle's mother?

2. What racial slur did Nerburn overhear in the Homestead town restaurant?

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

4. According to the Lakota, what happened the year the buffalo froze?

5. Why couldn't Dan speak or write, according to the grandfathers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Annie's house.

2. What stood in the middle of the plot that was through the pillars?

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

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

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

7. Dan asked Nerburn to help him and Nerburn wanted to do that but what else did Nerburn feel he needed to do?

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

9. Why was Thoreau mentioned in the conversation?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of these three topics:

1) How did the Indians treat white men when they first came to Indian land? How did white men -- French, Spanish and English -- treat the Indians?

2) What kind of a ride did they have after Nerburn asked to make a phone call and Grover said "short cut"? Why did Grover call his car "Shunka kan"?

3) What did Dan reveal about "Tatanka," the buffalo which they spotted on the side of a hill?

4) Choose two of the topics to write on.

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) Describe Annie.

2) Describe Danelle and Delvin.

3) Describe Danelle and Delvin's children.

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