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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. Who was Crazy Horse?

2. What color did Nerburn say the morning sky was?

3. What did the Spanish want from the Indians?

4. What was the object wrapped in a blanket that Grover took out of his trunk?

5. What did Dan rebuke Nerburn about in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was Thoreau mentioned in the conversation?

4. What was the difference between Lincoln and Jesus in Dan's eyes?

5. What is Paha Sapa?

6. What are some of the bad things the white men did to the Indians?

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

8. Of what did the latticework arch between the pillars at Wounded Knee remind Nerburn?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Write about the silence of Indians vs the talkativeness of white people. Which do you think is better? Why?

2) What explanation did Dan give Nerburn for the junk lying out in front of the Indian village houses?

3) How do Indians and White people view possessions differently?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of these three topics:

1) What did Dan say about Indians who sell sacred objects of their people?

2) Describe the grassy field where the Pow Wow was going to be held and what was on it.

3) How did being in the Navy influence Grover?

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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