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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 were the most important assets Nerburn had in writing the book?
(a) His love and respect of Indians.
(b) The pen and the tape recorder.
(c) His previous experience with the Lakota.
(d) Dan's notes and clippings in the shoebox.

2. According to Dan, what did the white man do to the land?
(a) Disrespected it.
(b) Turned it into property.
(c) Didn't love it.
(d) Developed it.

3. What does "wakan" mean in English?
(a) Sacred or filled with power.
(b) Young or innocent.
(c) Far away.
(d) Secret or hidden.

4. How were the reservations defined on Nerburn's map?
(a) By large black capital letters.
(b) They were surrounded by solid red lines.
(c) Each reservation was a different pastel color mass.
(d) By slightly off-colored squares surrounded by dotted lines.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Lakota Elder want to talk with Nerburn?

2. What did Dan's granddaughter put in the breakfast oatmeal?

3. What was the Indian philosophy of ownership?

4. What did Nerburn buy at the local store before proceeding to the old Indian's house?

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

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