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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 through 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dan's Indian friends call Nerburn?
(a) White man.
(b) Intruder.
(c) City boy.
(d) Grizzly Adams.

2. How did Dan describe the rolling foothills?
(a) White man's land.
(b) Indian land.
(c) Mother earth.
(d) A beautiful place.

3. To what did Nerburn compare what was happening on the grassy field below them in Chapter 12?
(a) A WWI battle scene.
(b) A medieval battlefield.
(c) A musical performance.
(d) A family reunion.

4. Why couldn't Dan speak or write, according to the grandfathers?
(a) He wasn't poetic enough.
(b) He hadn't graduated from Haskell.
(c) He had married a white woman.
(d) He had too much anger.

5. What was the name of the old Indian's dog?
(a) Old Yeller.
(b) Old Faithful.
(c) Round Tummy.
(d) Fatback.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color was Grover's couch?

2. According to Dan, how do white people learn?

3. In what year was the book published?

4. What criticisms did Grover have for the first chapters Nerburn wrote?

5. Why did the Lakota Elder want to talk with Nerburn?

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