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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. Why does Dan feel he should forgive the white man?
(a) He feels he might do what they did if in their place.
(b) He pities the white man as an inferior being.
(c) The land, the mountain and forest teach him to heal and forgive.
(d) He feels he has no alternative but to forgive.

2. What did the Lakota people consider a sacred offering?
(a) River stones.
(b) Maize.
(c) Buffalo hides.
(d) Tobacco.

3. What request did the Indian woman have when she called Nerburn?
(a) She asked him to sell her his two books.
(b) She asked him to speak to her grandfather on the phone,.
(c) She asked him to visit her grandfather, an Elder.
(d) She asked him if she could visit him.

4. How did Grover wear his hair?
(a) In a pony tail.
(b) Medium length parted at the side.
(c) Long and straggly hanging loose.
(d) In a crew cut.

5. On what reservation had Nerburn worked several years before?
(a) The Red Lake Objibwe Reservation.
(b) The Red Dog Reservation.
(c) The Dakota Black Hills Reservation.
(d) The Sacred Buffalo Reservation,

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dan, the Creator love the smell of what?

2. Why did the woman from New York say the Red Road books were not helpful in finding out about the Indians?

3. What did Dan like about Nerburn?

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

5. On what kind of sandwich did Grover often make for which Dan complimented him?

(see the answer key)

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