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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Describe the Hippie man.
(a) He was fat with two braids.
(b) He was medium-build with long stringy hair.
(c) He was gaunt with a braided ponytail.
(d) He was big and brawny with a long straight ponytail.

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

4. What had an old farmer in Bismarck told Nerburn when he asked why he never went east?
(a) He said "nah, trees make me nervous."
(b) He said, "there are too many big cities in the east."
(c) He said, "I can't afford the trip."
(d) He said, "It's too expensive in the east."

5. What did the Indians feel the Creator disapproved of that the white man did?
(a) Not honor the Indians and their ways.
(b) Make silly, stereotyped Indian movies.
(c) Offer money for land.
(d) Dress differently and have different customs.

6. What request did the Indian woman have when she called Nerburn?
(a) She asked him if she could visit him.
(b) She asked him to sell her his two books.
(c) She asked him to speak to her grandfather on the phone,.
(d) She asked him to visit her grandfather, an Elder.

7. Why did the Lakota Elder want to talk with Nerburn?
(a) He was interested in white people.
(b) He wanted to invite him to a pow wow.
(c) He had seen the two books Nerburn had written.
(d) He was curious about Nerburn's interest in the Lakota.

8. What does "wakan" mean in English?
(a) Far away.
(b) Young or innocent.
(c) Sacred or filled with power.
(d) Secret or hidden.

9. Who was in "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show" for awhile?
(a) Sitting Bull.
(b) Lakota elders.
(c) A Navajo medicine man.
(d) Black Elk.

10. Dan's lifestyle was like whose?
(a) His granddaughter's.
(b) Grover's.
(c) The Lakota tribe's.
(d) Fatack's.

11. What color was Grover's couch?
(a) Blue.
(b) Dark red.
(c) Brown.
(d) Green.

12. What was the author doing when the seed for this book was planted in his mind?
(a) Sitting on his front porch watching the sun set.
(b) Day-dreaming about Indians and their values.
(c) Riding his motorcycle across North Dakota in August.
(d) Re-reading the other books he had written about Indians.

13. How much did Dan's grandmother receive for sitting on a blanket and having her picture taken?
(a) A dime.
(b) A nickel.
(c) A quarter.
(d) Fifty cents.

14. Why did the woman from New York say the Red Road books were not helpful in finding out about the Indians?
(a) She didn't care to learn the truth about the Lakota people.
(b) The Indians in the book weren't like the "movie Indians."
(c) She didn't trust a book written by a white man.
(d) The Indians sounded "flat and uninteresting" in the books.

15. What was the Indian philosophy of ownership?
(a) You owned it as long as you needed it then passed it on.
(b) The more things you owned, the better.
(c) No one dare violate one's ownership of something.
(d) If you owned a lot of things others looked up to you,.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was outside of the Old Indian's house?

2. What was the only sign of industriousness that could be seen in the village?

3. When was a man supposed to wear an eagle feather?

4. How did Nerburn feel when he was among the Indians?

5. What do white people fear that Indians do not and even cultivate?

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