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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22 and 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Indian people did Dan say were killing Indians?
(a) The Indians who sold the sacred ways.
(b) The Indians who adopted white ways.
(c) The Indians who intermarried with whites.
(d) The Indians who became rich and moved away.

2. Grover had a tattoo of what on his right arm?
(a) A scull.
(b) An eagle.
(c) A woman's name.
(d) A heart.

3. According to Dan, the Creator love the smell of what?
(a) Sweet grass sprinkled into a fire.
(b) The spring rain.
(c) The Indian camp fire.
(d) The spring prairie flowers.

4. What was Nerburn's first inclination to do after leaving his Nissan at Jumbo's?
(a) He wanted to go to Dan's house and work on the book.
(b) He wanted to go to the motel and sleep till it was over.
(c) He wanted to stay in the village and explore it.
(d) He wanted to take the trip with Grover and Dan.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How old was Grover?

4. What was the Wanekia?

5. What do white men want from the Indians now?

(see the answer key)

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