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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22 and 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Indians what people are closest to God?
(a) Babies and old people.
(b) Chiefs and Medicine men.
(c) Warriors and Ghost dancers.
(d) Teenagers and Indian missionaries.

2. What New England writer did Dan bring up in the conversation?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) Thoreau.
(c) Mary Baker Eddy.
(d) Alcott.

3. According to Dan, the Creator love the smell of what?
(a) The Indian camp fire.
(b) The spring prairie flowers.
(c) The spring rain.
(d) Sweet grass sprinkled into a fire.

4. According to Dan, how do white people learn?
(a) By experimenting.
(b) By talking.
(c) By reading.
(d) By listening.

5. On what reservation had Nerburn worked several years before?
(a) The Sacred Buffalo Reservation,
(b) The Dakota Black Hills Reservation.
(c) The Red Dog Reservation.
(d) The Red Lake Objibwe Reservation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color hatband was on Grover's cowboy hat?

2. What adjective did Dan use to describe the hills where they were parked?

3. How many people were in the front seat of the pickup?

4. What sentence, according to Nerburn, sums up America?

5. What does Dan say he sometimes imagines doing in revenge for the whites taking everything sacred to Indians?

(see the answer key)

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