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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22 and 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Grover doing when Dan and Nerburn came to visit him?
(a) Fixing his Buick.
(b) Reading one of Nerburn's books.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Watching a black and white cowboy movie on television.

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

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

4. What did Grover sprinkle in the fire that the bad spirits hated?
(a) Evergreen needles.
(b) Sage.
(c) Clover.
(d) Thistles.

5. What was the title of one of the books Nerburn wrote after working on the reservation?
(a) Our Mother Earth.
(b) The Forgotten People.
(c) Tales of the Elders.
(d) To Walk the Red Road.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Grover's answer when Dan asked him why he didn't have any junk cars in his yard?

2. With whom did Sitting Bull's people join when they went south to avoid the soldiers?

3. What question did Nerburn ask the Indian which he shouldn't have asked?

4. What was the Wanekia?

5. What did Grover, Dan and Nerburn have for lunch at Grover's house?

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