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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. According to Dan, the Creator love the smell of what?
(a) The Indian camp fire.
(b) The spring rain.
(c) Sweet grass sprinkled into a fire.
(d) The spring prairie flowers.

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

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

4. What was the author doing when the seed for this book was planted in his mind?
(a) Sitting on his front porch watching the sun set.
(b) Riding his motorcycle across North Dakota in August.
(c) Re-reading the other books he had written about Indians.
(d) Day-dreaming about Indians and their values.

5. What do white people fear that Indians do not and even cultivate?
(a) Jokes.
(b) Silence.
(c) Arguments.
(d) Legends.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Dan feel he should forgive the white man?

3. Where was Grover's house located?

4. In what year was the book published?

5. What are "pispiza"?

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