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

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

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

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

5. How old was Grover?
(a) In his early sixties.
(b) In his late thirties.
(c) In his late forties.
(d) In his late fifties.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Grover wear his hair?

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

3. How were the reservations defined on Nerburn's map?

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

5. What did the Lakota people call the Creator?

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