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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. What racial slur did Nerburn overhear in the Homestead town restaurant?

2. What was good after the terrible storm?

3. What did Grover sprinkle in the fire that the bad spirits hated?

4. The Catholic church held a conference to determine what about Indians?

5. Grover had a tattoo of what on his right arm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Paha Sapa?

2. Describe the inside of Annie's house.

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

4. According to Dan, why are white people in trouble?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why was Thoreau mentioned in the conversation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Why was Nerburn having second thoughts about the projects? What did he do about this?

2) What was wrong with Nerburn's Nissan truck? Where did he take it to be fixed? Describe the garage and mechanic.

3) Describe the vehicles Grover passed on the trip he, Dan and Nerburn were taking. What are some of the bumper stickers they had?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Why did white men choose freedom and Indians choose honor to worship? Discuss the cages Dan brought up. Are white men really free?

2) How did Dan describe the treaties which were offered to the Indians?

3) How did the whites use words against the Indians?

Essay Topic 3

Choose two of these three topics:

1) Describe Annie.

2) Describe Danelle and Delvin.

3) Describe Danelle and Delvin's children.

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