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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. How far apart were the houses in the village?
(a) About a mile apart.
(b) About 75 ft. from one another.
(c) About a quarter of a mile apart.
(d) About a half a mile apart.

2. What was Grover's answer when Dan asked him why he didn't have any junk cars in his yard?
(a) I like a neat yard.
(b) That's what being in the service did to me.
(c) I don't have a dog.
(d) I don't like junk.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Dan and the Lakota people feel about being called Indians?

2. What Indian had counseled reaching out a hand of peace to the white people?

3. What were the most important assets Nerburn had in writing the book?

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

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

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