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

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

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

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

5. Why did the Lakota Elder want to talk with Nerburn?
(a) He was curious about Nerburn's interest in the Lakota.
(b) He was interested in white people.
(c) He had seen the two books Nerburn had written.
(d) He wanted to invite him to a pow wow.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Grover wear his hair?

3. What did the Lakota word "wasichu" mean in English?

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

5. Why does Dan feel he should forgive the white man?

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