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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 Dan's grandfathers give him the song?

2. What reason did Nerburn give for not wearing a watch?

3. Describe Danelle.

4. Who was Ziolkowski?

5. Who shot Sitting Bull?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Dan means when he talks about white mens' cages?

2. What was the advice Dan gave Nerburn in Chapter 12, "Welcome to Our Land"?

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

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

5. Describe Grover's drive to Annie's house in the beginning of Chapter 20.

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Describe Annie.

2) Describe Danelle and Delvin.

3) Describe Danelle and Delvin's children.

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 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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