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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was outside of the Old Indian's house?
(a) A small vegetable garden.
(b) Two cars, one on blocks.
(c) An outhouse.
(d) A large Cadillac.

2. What Indian had counseled reaching out a hand of peace to the white people?
(a) Black Kettle.
(b) Black Stag.
(c) Sitting Bull.
(d) Running Horse.

3. What were the most important assets Nerburn had in writing the book?
(a) His love and respect of Indians.
(b) The pen and the tape recorder.
(c) Dan's notes and clippings in the shoebox.
(d) His previous experience with the Lakota.

4. What sentence, according to Nerburn, sums up America?
(a) "From sea to shining sea."
(b) "We are number one."
(c) "What's in it for me?"
(d) "We are the land of the free."

5. What tribe of Indians were the cowboys fighting in the movie Grover was watching?
(a) Apaches.
(b) Lakotas.
(c) Comanches.
(d) Navajos.

6. In what kind of vehicle was the Hippie family traveling?
(a) An old station wagon with a dream-catcher hangin in it.
(b) A blue Volkswagen.
(c) A green school bus with red curtains.
(d) An old van with an Indian scene painted on its side.

7. What did the Lakota people consider a sacred offering?
(a) River stones.
(b) Buffalo hides.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Maize.

8. Who did Nerburn sit next to in the Buick on the trip?
(a) Nobody.
(b) Grover.
(c) Dan.
(d) Fatback.

9. When all the sacred Indian ceremonies are gone what will be left according to Dan?
(a) Their sorrows.
(b) Their hearts.
(c) Their families.
(d) Their memories.

10. What was Nerburn's first inclination to do after leaving his Nissan at Jumbo's?
(a) He wanted to stay in the village and explore it.
(b) He wanted to go to Dan's house and work on the book.
(c) He wanted to go to the motel and sleep till it was over.
(d) He wanted to take the trip with Grover and Dan.

11. How did the Indians measure people when times were bad?
(a) By whether they were poor.
(b) By whether they were able to survive.
(c) By how they shared.
(d) By whether they were rich.

12. What are "pispiza"?
(a) Lakota elders.
(b) Prairie dogs.
(c) Cherokee Indians.
(d) Sweet grasses.

13. How fast did Grover drive his Buick?
(a) He seldom drove over 45 miles per hour.
(b) He drove at exactly the speed limit.
(c) He drove about 60 miles per hour.
(d) He crept along at about 30 miles per hour.

14. How did Nerburn feel when he was among the Indians?
(a) Angry and aggressive.
(b) Happy and honored.
(c) Anxious and fearful.
(d) Curious and defensive.

15. What do white people fear that Indians do not and even cultivate?
(a) Silence.
(b) Jokes.
(c) Arguments.
(d) Legends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Grover doing when Dan and Nerburn came to visit him?

2. What was the name of the old Indian's dog?

3. From what college did Dan's grandson graduate?

4. What did Grover and Dan do as the car passed through the evening landscape?

5. Why did Dan feel it was stupid to be called an Indian?

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