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

2. What did the Lakota word "wasichu" mean in English?
(a) White man.
(b) Dog.
(c) Danger.
(d) Elder.

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

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

5. What did Dan like about Nerburn?
(a) He was quiet.
(b) He wasn't trying to be an Indian.
(c) He was polite.
(d) He was thoughtful.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Grover's house located?

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

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

5. What is the lie of the good man, according to Dan?

(see the answer key)

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