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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 are "pispiza"?
(a) Sweet grasses.
(b) Lakota elders.
(c) Cherokee Indians.
(d) Prairie dogs.

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

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

4. How were the reservations defined on Nerburn's map?
(a) By large black capital letters.
(b) Each reservation was a different pastel color mass.
(c) By slightly off-colored squares surrounded by dotted lines.
(d) They were surrounded by solid red lines.

5. What did the Lakota people call the Creator?
(a) Walka Tenken.
(b) The Great Spirit.
(c) Wakan Tanka.
(d) Watiki Tokan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dan's granddaughter put in the breakfast oatmeal?

2. Dan's lifestyle was like whose?

3. What did the Indians feel the Creator disapproved of that the white man did?

4. Why did the Lakota Elder want to talk with Nerburn?

5. How did the Indians measure people when times were bad?

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