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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) The land, the mountain and forest teach him to heal and forgive.
(d) He feels he has no alternative but to forgive.

2. Where did Fatback live?
(a) In a dirt hollow she had dug beneath the junk car.
(b) In an old wooden dog house.
(c) In the house with Dan.
(d) Under Dan's front porch.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "wakan" mean in English?

2. According to Dan, the Creator love the smell of what?

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

4. What was the title of one of the books Nerburn wrote after working on the reservation?

5. What did Nerburn buy at the local store before proceeding to the old Indian's house?

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