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

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

3. Why did Dan feel it was stupid to be called an Indian?
(a) Because he was really a Native American.
(b) Because it wasn't a Lakota term.
(c) Because Columbus thought he had found the East Indies.
(d) Because it was demeaning.

4. What does "wakan" mean in English?
(a) Far away.
(b) Sacred or filled with power.
(c) Secret or hidden.
(d) Young or innocent.

5. What did Grover and Dan do as the car passed through the evening landscape?
(a) They started telling jokes about white people.
(b) Grover drove but Dan fell asleep.
(c) They whispered seeming secrets in Lakota.
(d) They sang plaintive, warbling songs in Lakota.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was a man supposed to wear an eagle feather?

3. Where was Grover's house located?

4. What had an old farmer in Bismarck told Nerburn when he asked why he never went east?

5. Why did the Lakota Elder want to talk with Nerburn?

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