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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 title of one of the books Nerburn wrote after working on the reservation?
(a) The Forgotten People.
(b) To Walk the Red Road.
(c) Tales of the Elders.
(d) Our Mother Earth.

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

3. What was the author doing when the seed for this book was planted in his mind?
(a) Riding his motorcycle across North Dakota in August.
(b) Day-dreaming about Indians and their values.
(c) Sitting on his front porch watching the sun set.
(d) Re-reading the other books he had written about Indians.

4. What color was Grover's couch?
(a) Blue.
(b) Dark red.
(c) Brown.
(d) Green.

5. What kind of horses were all the Indians in the television cowboy movie riding?
(a) Palominos.
(b) Pintos.
(c) Wild horses.
(d) Black horses.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the Indian philosophy of ownership?

3. According to Dan, what did the white man do to the land?

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

5. What color was Nerburn's truck?

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