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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. When was a man supposed to wear an eagle feather?
(a) When he earned it in battle or a veteran gave it to him.
(b) When his mother gave it to him.
(c) When he found it in nature.
(d) During a Pow Wow.

2. What color hatband was on Grover's cowboy hat?
(a) Turquoise.
(b) Red.
(c) Navy blue.
(d) Green.

3. Describe Nerburn's immediate family.
(a) A wife and two teenage daughters.
(b) A wife, a teenage daughter and a young boy.
(c) A wife and two teenage sons.
(d) A wife, a small blond daughter and a teenage boy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Grover insist they order at the truck stop?

2. Grover had a tattoo of what on his right arm?

3. What are "pispiza"?

4. What were the most important assets Nerburn had in writing the book?

5. What did Dan say Nerburn thought too much about?

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