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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 through 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. What had an old farmer in Bismarck told Nerburn when he asked why he never went east?
(a) He said, "there are too many big cities in the east."
(b) He said, "It's too expensive in the east."
(c) He said, "I can't afford the trip."
(d) He said "nah, trees make me nervous."

5. What color hatband was on Grover's cowboy hat?
(a) Navy blue.
(b) Turquoise.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What Indian people did Dan say were killing Indians?

4. What did Dan consider bullshit regarding the white people's way of life?

5. What was the object wrapped in a blanket that Grover took out of his trunk?

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