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

2. In what year was the book updated?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2003.

3. What drug did Nerburn take in the sixties that mimicked the experience Dan had listening to the dead?
(a) Marijuana.
(b) LSD.
(c) Speed.
(d) Peyote.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Grover wear his hair?

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

3. What was in the yard to the left of Grover's house?

4. What does "wakan" mean in English?

5. What was outside of the Old Indian's house?

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