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

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

3. Nerburn got a phone call from whom in Chapter 1?
(a) An Indian Elder.
(b) His publisher.
(c) An Indian woman.
(d) His son.

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

5. What did Dan like about Nerburn?
(a) He was quiet.
(b) He was thoughtful.
(c) He was polite.
(d) He wasn't trying to be an Indian.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the book published?

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

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

4. What did the Lakota people call the Creator?

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

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