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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 Nerburn buy at the local store before proceeding to the old Indian's house?
(a) A pack of chewing gum.
(b) A soda.
(c) A candy bar.
(d) A pack of Prince Albert tobacco.

2. How did the Indians measure people when times were bad?
(a) By whether they were rich.
(b) By whether they were able to survive.
(c) By whether they were poor.
(d) By how they shared.

3. What shape was Sitting Bull's Monument?
(a) It was an incribed bench.
(b) It was a Mausoleum.
(c) It was an Obelisk.
(d) It was a square stone building.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Nerburn sit next to in the Buick on the trip?

2. Dan's lifestyle was like whose?

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

4. How were the reservations defined on Nerburn's map?

5. On what kind of sandwich did Grover often make for which Dan complimented him?

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