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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 through 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year was the book published?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1992.

3. Where was Grover's house located?
(a) In the next village.
(b) Down the road from Dan's house.
(c) On the other side of the village.
(d) In the middle of the village.

4. What was in the yard to the left of Grover's house?
(a) An old, rusted truck
(b) A perfectly ordered woodpile.
(c) A small garden.
(d) A wagon wheel.

5. Why did the woman from New York say the Red Road books were not helpful in finding out about the Indians?
(a) She didn't care to learn the truth about the Lakota people.
(b) The Indians in the book weren't like the "movie Indians."
(c) She didn't trust a book written by a white man.
(d) The Indians sounded "flat and uninteresting" in the books.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do white people fear that Indians do not and even cultivate?

2. Why didn't Nerburn play cards?

3. What did the Lakota word "wasichu" mean in English?

4. What was inside the three-sided wooden structure Nerburn came across on his motorcycle trip?

5. What was the author doing when the seed for this book was planted in his mind?

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