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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How fast did Grover drive his Buick?
(a) He seldom drove over 45 miles per hour.
(b) He crept along at about 30 miles per hour.
(c) He drove about 60 miles per hour.
(d) He drove at exactly the speed limit.

2. Who did Nerburn sit next to in the Buick on the trip?
(a) Fatback.
(b) Dan.
(c) Grover.
(d) Nobody.

3. What did Grover and Dan do as the car passed through the evening landscape?
(a) They sang plaintive, warbling songs in Lakota.
(b) They whispered seeming secrets in Lakota.
(c) They started telling jokes about white people.
(d) Grover drove but Dan fell asleep.

4. Why didn't Nerburn play cards?
(a) He felt it led to gambling.
(b) He thought it was a waste of time.
(c) He had never learned how to play.
(d) He disapproved of playing cards.

5. How were the reservations defined on Nerburn's map?
(a) They were surrounded by solid red lines.
(b) Each reservation was a different pastel color mass.
(c) By large black capital letters.
(d) By slightly off-colored squares surrounded by dotted lines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe the Hippie man.

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

3. What did the Indians feel the Creator disapproved of that the white man did?

4. What did the guys in Grover's unit call him when he was in Korea?

5. In what year was the book updated?

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