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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 through 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dan consider bullshit regarding the white people's way of life?
(a) The white people's way of raising their children.
(b) The white people's marriage customs.
(c) The white people's attitude toward possessions.
(d) The white people's emphasis on education.

2. What did Sitting Bull's monument overlook?
(a) The Kansas plains.
(b) A Lakota settlement.
(c) The Missouri River Valley.
(d) A Homestead town.

3. What do white people fear that Indians do not and even cultivate?
(a) Jokes.
(b) Legends.
(c) Arguments.
(d) Silence.

4. What did Grover insist they order at the truck stop?
(a) Bacon double cheeseburgers and fries.
(b) Fried eggs and bacon.
(c) Pancakes and sausages.
(d) Bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches and fries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Grover doing when Dan and Nerburn came to visit him?

2. What did Dan and Grover say about Jumbo's ability to fix Nerburn's NIssan truck?

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

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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