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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 was the Indian philosophy of ownership?
(a) If you owned a lot of things others looked up to you,.
(b) You owned it as long as you needed it then passed it on.
(c) The more things you owned, the better.
(d) No one dare violate one's ownership of something.

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

3. What do white people fear that Indians do not and even cultivate?
(a) Jokes.
(b) Silence.
(c) Arguments.
(d) Legends.

4. What movie star did Dan like?
(a) Hopalong Cassidy.
(b) Gene Autry.
(c) John Wayne.
(d) Roy Rogers.

5. What did Dan say Nerburn thought too much about?
(a) Possessions.
(b) Women.
(c) Time.
(d) The weather.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Nerburn sit next to in the Buick on the trip?

2. Why did Dan feel it was stupid to be called an Indian?

3. Who was in "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show" for awhile?

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

5. Dan's lifestyle was like whose?

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