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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 did Dan's Indian friends call Nerburn?
(a) Intruder.
(b) City boy.
(c) White man.
(d) Grizzly Adams.

2. What request did the Indian woman have when she called Nerburn?
(a) She asked him to speak to her grandfather on the phone,.
(b) She asked him to visit her grandfather, an Elder.
(c) She asked him if she could visit him.
(d) She asked him to sell her his two books.

3. Why did the woman from New York say the Red Road books were not helpful in finding out about the Indians?
(a) The Indians sounded "flat and uninteresting" in the books.
(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) She didn't care to learn the truth about the Lakota people.

4. How did Grover wear his hair?
(a) In a crew cut.
(b) Long and straggly hanging loose.
(c) Medium length parted at the side.
(d) In a pony tail.

5. On what reservation had Nerburn worked several years before?
(a) The Red Lake Objibwe Reservation.
(b) The Red Dog Reservation.
(c) The Sacred Buffalo Reservation,
(d) The Dakota Black Hills Reservation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were Dan and Nerburn listening to as they sat on Dan's front porch?

3. What are "pispiza"?

4. What was outside of the Old Indian's house?

5. How did the Indians measure people when times were bad?

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