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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 through 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was inside the three-sided wooden structure Nerburn came across on his motorcycle trip?
(a) An offering of free fruits and vegetables to passers-by.
(b) Three stones with Lakota traditions inscribed in them.
(c) A sacred Lakota buffalo rock.
(d) A wood carving of a Lakota Indian.

2. How did Grover wear his hair?
(a) In a crew cut.
(b) Long and straggly hanging loose.
(c) In a pony tail.
(d) Medium length parted at the side.

3. What were the most important assets Nerburn had in writing the book?
(a) Dan's notes and clippings in the shoebox.
(b) The pen and the tape recorder.
(c) His love and respect of Indians.
(d) His previous experience with the Lakota.

4. What was outside of the Old Indian's house?
(a) A large Cadillac.
(b) An outhouse.
(c) Two cars, one on blocks.
(d) A small vegetable garden.

5. How did the Indians measure people when times were bad?
(a) By whether they were rich.
(b) By how they shared.
(c) By whether they were able to survive.
(d) By whether they were poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are "pispiza"?

2. How do Dan and the Lakota people feel about being called Indians?

3. What criticisms did Grover have for the first chapters Nerburn wrote?

4. What drug did Nerburn take in the sixties that mimicked the experience Dan had listening to the dead?

5. What did the Lakota people call the Creator?

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