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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 through 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Dan and Nerburn listening to as they sat on Dan's front porch?
(a) The approach of Grover's car.
(b) Fatback's barking.
(c) Dan's granddaughter singing as she worked.
(d) The larksong and the morning wind.

2. In which South Western City was there a market where rich people could buy all kinds of Indian stuff?
(a) Santa Fe.
(b) El Paso.
(c) Austin.
(d) San Antonio.

3. Why did the woman from New York say the Red Road books were not helpful in finding out about the Indians?
(a) She didn't care to learn the truth about the Lakota people.
(b) The Indians in the book weren't like the "movie Indians."
(c) The Indians sounded "flat and uninteresting" in the books.
(d) She didn't trust a book written by a white man.

4. What did Grover sprinkle in the fire that the bad spirits hated?
(a) Sage.
(b) Evergreen needles.
(c) Clover.
(d) Thistles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Indians Grover was watching on television looked like what nationality?

2. To what did Grover compare the white man's religious Communion in the Lakota society?

3. To what did Nerburn compare what was happening on the grassy field below them in Chapter 12?

4. What was Nerburn's first inclination to do after leaving his Nissan at Jumbo's?

5. What was the song that Dan chanted about?

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