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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. When was a man supposed to wear an eagle feather?
(a) When he earned it in battle or a veteran gave it to him.
(b) When his mother gave it to him.
(c) When he found it in nature.
(d) During a Pow Wow.

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 like junk.
(d) I don't have a dog.

3. What was outside of the Old Indian's house?
(a) A small vegetable garden.
(b) A large Cadillac.
(c) An outhouse.
(d) Two cars, one on blocks.

4. What did Wenonah suggest Nerburn do?
(a) Start cooking the meals for her and Dan.
(b) Sleep under the car.
(c) Give up writing the book.
(d) Become an honorary member of the Lakota tribe.

5. What were the most important assets Nerburn had in writing the book?
(a) The pen and the tape recorder.
(b) His love and respect of Indians.
(c) His previous experience with the Lakota.
(d) Dan's notes and clippings in the shoebox.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Nerburn use to pack his belongings?

2. What was the Indian philosophy of ownership?

3. What did Grover and Dan do as the car passed through the evening landscape?

4. The Indians Grover was watching on television looked like what nationality?

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

(see the answer key)

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