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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 through 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Fatback live?
(a) In an old wooden dog house.
(b) Under Dan's front porch.
(c) In a dirt hollow she had dug beneath the junk car.
(d) In the house with Dan.

2. How did the Indians measure people when times were bad?
(a) By whether they were able to survive.
(b) By how they shared.
(c) By whether they were rich.
(d) By whether they were poor.

3. What sentence, according to Nerburn, sums up America?
(a) "We are the land of the free."
(b) "From sea to shining sea."
(c) "We are number one."
(d) "What's in it for me?"

4. What was the only sign of industriousness that could be seen in the village?
(a) The men working on their cars.
(b) The gardens behind each house.
(c) The line of laundry flapping in the wind behind each house.
(d) The cleanly swept sidewalks in front of the houses.

5. On what kind of sandwich did Grover often make for which Dan complimented him?
(a) Peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
(b) Tuna fish sandwich.
(c) Roast Beef sandwich.
(d) Baloney sandwich.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the old Indian's dog?

2. What did Dan's Indian friends call Nerburn?

3. How did Grover wear his hair?

4. What drug did Nerburn take in the sixties that mimicked the experience Dan had listening to the dead?

5. What did the Indians feel the Creator disapproved of that the white man did?

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