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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. According to Dan, how do white people learn?
(a) By reading.
(b) By talking.
(c) By listening.
(d) By experimenting.

2. On what reservation had Nerburn worked several years before?
(a) The Sacred Buffalo Reservation,
(b) The Red Dog Reservation.
(c) The Red Lake Objibwe Reservation.
(d) The Dakota Black Hills Reservation.

3. What does "wakan" mean in English?
(a) Young or innocent.
(b) Far away.
(c) Sacred or filled with power.
(d) Secret or hidden.

4. What color was Nerburn's truck?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dan's granddaughter put in the breakfast oatmeal?

2. Nerburn got a phone call from whom in Chapter 1?

3. What did Dan's Indian friends call Nerburn?

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

5. Who was in "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show" for awhile?

(see the answer key)

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