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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. Why does Dan feel he should forgive the white man?
(a) He feels he might do what they did if in their place.
(b) He pities the white man as an inferior being.
(c) He feels he has no alternative but to forgive.
(d) The land, the mountain and forest teach him to heal and forgive.

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

3. What was the author doing when the seed for this book was planted in his mind?
(a) Day-dreaming about Indians and their values.
(b) Sitting on his front porch watching the sun set.
(c) Re-reading the other books he had written about Indians.
(d) Riding his motorcycle across North Dakota in August.

4. What did the Indians feel the Creator disapproved of that the white man did?
(a) Dress differently and have different customs.
(b) Not honor the Indians and their ways.
(c) Make silly, stereotyped Indian movies.
(d) Offer money for land.

5. According to Dan, what did the white man do to the land?
(a) Developed it.
(b) Didn't love it.
(c) Turned it into property.
(d) Disrespected it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Dan feel it was stupid to be called an Indian?

2. What did the Lakota people consider a sacred offering?

3. What drug did Nerburn take in the sixties that mimicked the experience Dan had listening to the dead?

4. What was in the yard to the left of Grover's house?

5. What Indian had counseled reaching out a hand of peace to the white people?

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