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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Dan and Nerburn listening to as they sat on Dan's front porch?
(a) The approach of Grover's car.
(b) The larksong and the morning wind.
(c) Fatback's barking.
(d) Dan's granddaughter singing as she worked.

2. Nerburn got a phone call from whom in Chapter 1?
(a) An Indian Elder.
(b) An Indian woman.
(c) His son.
(d) His publisher.

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

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

5. From what college did Dan's grandson graduate?
(a) Haskell.
(b) North Dakota U.
(c) Yale.
(d) Notre Dame.

Short Answer Questions

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

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 did the Lakota word "wasichu" mean in English?

5. What was the author doing when the seed for this book was planted in his mind?

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