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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20 and 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What adjective did Nerburn use to describe what white people thought Indians were with which Dan agreed?
(a) Exotic.
(b) Brave.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Wild.

3. What was the worst thing the white man brought to the Indians according to Dan?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Boarding schools for their children.
(c) Gambling.
(d) Small pox.

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

5. What drug did Nerburn take in the sixties that mimicked the experience Dan had listening to the dead?
(a) LSD.
(b) Peyote.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Speed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Lakota people call the Creator?

2. What did Grover sprinkle in the fire that the bad spirits hated?

3. What gift did April give Nerburn?

4. When Dan asked what Gitchi-gumi was, what did Nerburn answer?

5. Who shot Sitting Bull?

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