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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 criticisms did Grover have for the first chapters Nerburn wrote?
(a) They were too poetic and fancy.
(b) They were not authentic and full of lies.
(c) They sounded too much like stories of "movie Indians."
(d) They were too short and used large words.

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

3. How did the Indians measure people when times were bad?
(a) By how they shared.
(b) By whether they were poor.
(c) By whether they were able to survive.
(d) By whether they were rich.

4. What did the Lakota people consider a sacred offering?
(a) Buffalo hides.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) River stones.
(d) Maize.

5. How do Dan and the Lakota people feel about being called Indians?
(a) They don't care about something like a name.
(b) They are amused.
(c) They are highly insulted.
(d) They are fighting mad.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What drug did Nerburn take in the sixties that mimicked the experience Dan had listening to the dead?

3. How old was Grover?

4. What famous person from overseas saw "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show"?

5. What did the guys in Grover's unit call him when he was in Korea?

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