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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 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.

2. What was Grover doing when Dan and Nerburn came to visit him?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Fixing his Buick.
(c) Watching a black and white cowboy movie on television.
(d) Reading one of Nerburn's books.

3. How were the reservations defined on Nerburn's map?
(a) By large black capital letters.
(b) By slightly off-colored squares surrounded by dotted lines.
(c) Each reservation was a different pastel color mass.
(d) They were surrounded by solid red lines.

4. What were Dan and Nerburn listening to as they sat on Dan's front porch?
(a) Dan's granddaughter singing as she worked.
(b) Fatback's barking.
(c) The larksong and the morning wind.
(d) The approach of Grover's car.

5. What sentence, according to Nerburn, sums up America?
(a) "From sea to shining sea."
(b) "What's in it for me?"
(c) "We are number one."
(d) "We are the land of the free."

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Lakota people call the Creator?

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

3. What did the Lakota word "wasichu" mean in English?

4. How did the Indians measure people when times were bad?

5. When Dan asked what Gitchi-gumi was, what did Nerburn answer?

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