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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the Lakota Elder want to talk with Nerburn?
(a) He was interested in white people.
(b) He was curious about Nerburn's interest in the Lakota.
(c) He had seen the two books Nerburn had written.
(d) He wanted to invite him to a pow wow.

2. Why didn't Nerburn play cards?
(a) He felt it led to gambling.
(b) He thought it was a waste of time.
(c) He had never learned how to play.
(d) He disapproved of playing cards.

3. What color was Grover's Buick?
(a) Gold.
(b) Green.
(c) Black.
(d) Blue.

4. What tribe of Indians were the cowboys fighting in the movie Grover was watching?
(a) Apaches.
(b) Comanches.
(c) Lakotas.
(d) Navajos.

5. To what did Grover compare the white man's religious Communion in the Lakota society?
(a) Sweetgrass.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Maize.
(d) The spring crop.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did the woman from New York say the Red Road books were not helpful in finding out about the Indians?

3. What do white people fear that Indians do not and even cultivate?

4. Where did Fatback live?

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

(see the answer key)

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