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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. How do Dan and the Lakota people feel about being called Indians?
(a) They are amused.
(b) They are highly insulted.
(c) They are fighting mad.
(d) They don't care about something like a name.

2. How did Nerburn feel when he was among the Indians?
(a) Curious and defensive.
(b) Happy and honored.
(c) Angry and aggressive.
(d) Anxious and fearful.

3. What was the name of the old Indian's dog?
(a) Round Tummy.
(b) Old Yeller.
(c) Old Faithful.
(d) Fatback.

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

5. What was the Indian philosophy of ownership?
(a) You owned it as long as you needed it then passed it on.
(b) The more things you owned, the better.
(c) If you owned a lot of things others looked up to you,.
(d) No one dare violate one's ownership of something.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what reservation had Nerburn worked several years before?

2. How did Grover wear his hair?

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

4. To what did Grover compare the white man's religious Communion in the Lakota society?

5. Why did Dan feel it was stupid to be called an Indian?

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