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

2. What drug did Nerburn take in the sixties that mimicked the experience Dan had listening to the dead?
(a) Speed.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Peyote.
(d) LSD.

3. What did Grover and Dan do as the car passed through the evening landscape?
(a) They sang plaintive, warbling songs in Lakota.
(b) Grover drove but Dan fell asleep.
(c) They whispered seeming secrets in Lakota.
(d) They started telling jokes about white people.

4. What was Grover's answer when Dan asked him why he didn't have any junk cars in his yard?
(a) I don't have a dog.
(b) That's what being in the service did to me.
(c) I don't like junk.
(d) I like a neat yard.

5. What did the Indians feel the Creator disapproved of that the white man did?
(a) Not honor the Indians and their ways.
(b) Dress differently and have different customs.
(c) Make silly, stereotyped Indian movies.
(d) Offer money for land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dan rebuke Nerburn about in Chapter 12?

2. What did the Lakota word "wasichu" mean in English?

3. What are "pispiza"?

4. Describe Nerburn's immediate family.

5. What reason did Nerburn give for not wearing a watch?

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