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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why didn't Nerburn play cards?
(a) He felt it led to gambling.
(b) He had never learned how to play.
(c) He thought it was a waste of time.
(d) He disapproved of playing cards.

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

3. What criticisms did Grover have for the first chapters Nerburn wrote?
(a) They were too poetic and fancy.
(b) They were too short and used large words.
(c) They sounded too much like stories of "movie Indians."
(d) They were not authentic and full of lies.

4. How were the reservations defined on Nerburn's map?
(a) By slightly off-colored squares surrounded by dotted lines.
(b) Each reservation was a different pastel color mass.
(c) By large black capital letters.
(d) They were surrounded by solid red lines.

5. What is the lie of the good man, according to Dan?
(a) A confession of ignorance.
(b) Changing the subject of the conversation.
(c) Silence.
(d) A white lie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of one of the books Nerburn wrote after working on the reservation?

2. What was the author doing when the seed for this book was planted in his mind?

3. Nerburn got a phone call from whom in Chapter 1?

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

5. What was inside the three-sided wooden structure Nerburn came across on his motorcycle trip?

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