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

2. To what did Grover compare the white man's religious Communion in the Lakota society?
(a) Sweetgrass.
(b) The spring crop.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Maize.

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

4. What did Dan consider bullshit regarding the white people's way of life?
(a) The white people's way of raising their children.
(b) The white people's attitude toward possessions.
(c) The white people's marriage customs.
(d) The white people's emphasis on education.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the book published?

2. According to Dan, what did the white man do to the land?

3. What was inside the three-sided wooden structure Nerburn came across on his motorcycle trip?

4. What criticisms did Grover have for the first chapters Nerburn wrote?

5. What was the title of one of the books Nerburn wrote after working on the reservation?

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