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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 through 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the lie of the good man, according to Dan?
(a) Changing the subject of the conversation.
(b) A confession of ignorance.
(c) A white lie.
(d) Silence.

3. What did Dan's Indian friends call Nerburn?
(a) City boy.
(b) White man.
(c) Intruder.
(d) Grizzly Adams.

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

5. What did Grover, Dan and Nerburn have for lunch at Grover's house?
(a) Roast beef sandwiches.
(b) Tuna fish sandwiches.
(c) Baloney sandwiches.
(d) Grape jelly and peanut butter sandwiches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Lakota people consider a sacred offering?

2. What was the name of the old Indian's dog?

3. What did Nerburn use to pack his belongings?

4. What criticisms did Grover have for the first chapters Nerburn wrote?

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

(see the answer key)

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