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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 Nerburn buy at the local store before proceeding to the old Indian's house?
(a) A pack of chewing gum.
(b) A pack of Prince Albert tobacco.
(c) A candy bar.
(d) A soda.

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 if she could visit him.
(c) She asked him to visit her grandfather, an Elder.
(d) She asked him to sell her his two books.

3. What was the Indian philosophy of ownership?
(a) The more things you owned, the better.
(b) No one dare violate one's ownership of something.
(c) You owned it as long as you needed it then passed it on.
(d) If you owned a lot of things others looked up to you,.

4. How did the Indians measure people when times were bad?
(a) By whether they were rich.
(b) By how they shared.
(c) By whether they were able to survive.
(d) By whether they were poor.

5. What was the title of one of the books Nerburn wrote after working on the reservation?
(a) The Forgotten People.
(b) Our Mother Earth.
(c) Tales of the Elders.
(d) To Walk the Red Road.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Nerburn feel when he was among the Indians?

2. Why didn't Nerburn play cards?

3. What did Wenonah suggest Nerburn do?

4. What did the Lakota people call the Creator?

5. What did Dan like about Nerburn?

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