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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Lakota people call the Creator?
(a) Watiki Tokan.
(b) Walka Tenken.
(c) The Great Spirit.
(d) Wakan Tanka.

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

3. What was inside the three-sided wooden structure Nerburn came across on his motorcycle trip?
(a) A wood carving of a Lakota Indian.
(b) An offering of free fruits and vegetables to passers-by.
(c) Three stones with Lakota traditions inscribed in them.
(d) A sacred Lakota buffalo rock.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Grover?

2. What did Wenonah suggest Nerburn do?

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

4. Why did the woman from New York say the Red Road books were not helpful in finding out about the Indians?

5. What did Nerburn buy at the local store before proceeding to the old Indian's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Write some things about Dan's grandson.

2. What did Nerburn find when he returned to Dan's house several months later?

3. Describe Dan's house.

4. Describe the houses in the Indian village Dan and Nerburn pass on their way to Grover's house.

5. Why did Indians wear long hair?

6. Explain the Indians' philosophy and practice of silence and how it differs from the white mens' way.

7. What were some of the reasons why Nerburn considered going home after his lunch with Grover and Dan?

8. Describe Grover.

9. Dan asked Nerburn to read one of the papers he had written using the Elder's notes and clippings. Describe that paper.

10. What was in the shoe boxes Dan gave Nerburn?

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