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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does BIA stand for?
(a) Basic Indian Area.
(b) Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(c) Brooklyn Indian Administration.
(d) Blackfoot Indian Association.

2. How was one way Indians tried to preserve their rights in Chapter 1?
(a) By holding whites hostage.
(b) By holding hunger strikes.
(c) By using the legal system.
(d) By retaliating on white cemeteries.

3. How does Chapter 1 claim the Indians were treated by many of the gold rush miners?
(a) Many were killed.
(b) Fairly.
(c) Most were friendly.
(d) Ignored.

4. What people do Deloria claim fears death more than any other group?
(a) Christians.
(b) Indians.
(c) Catholics.
(d) Baptists.

5. In Chapter 2, what brought even more attention to the American Indians?
(a) Memorial Day.
(b) Civil Rights Movement.
(c) Equal Rights Movement.
(d) Columbus Day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Deloria claims that religion dominates a tribal culture and which of the following?

2. In Chapter 10, Deloria claims Indians believed which of the following if a person was hanged for an offense?

3. What major reason did Deloria give for the Indians' refusal to give up their land to the whites?

4. How were the Indians arrested at the 1968 protest punished?

5. What did the Gold Rush cause the American Indians to do?

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