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

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

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

4. Why did the woman from New York say the Red Road books were not helpful in finding out about the Indians?
(a) She didn't trust a book written by a white man.
(b) She didn't care to learn the truth about the Lakota people.
(c) The Indians in the book weren't like the "movie Indians."
(d) The Indians sounded "flat and uninteresting" in the books.

5. What criticisms did Grover have for the first chapters Nerburn wrote?
(a) They were too short and used large words.
(b) They sounded too much like stories of "movie Indians."
(c) They were too poetic and fancy.
(d) They were not authentic and full of lies.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Dan's Indian friends call Nerburn?

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

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