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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Chapter 1 says that many people believed Indian settlements were located where?
(a) Sacred and forbidden to tourists.
(b) Sitting atop valuable resources, such as oil and minerals.
(c) Becoming extinct.
(d) Places for teenagers to party.

3. What major reason did Deloria give for the Indians' refusal to give up their land to the whites?
(a) Their wise men told them not to surrender.
(b) They loved the land more than their life.
(c) They knew the land would be valuable some day.
(d) Spiritual ancestors live on the land.

4. What did the Civil Rights Movement promise?
(a) Lower taxes.
(b) A better society.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Religious freedom.

5. Deloria names which of the following as the second type of sacred land?
(a) Reservations.
(b) Where oil is discovered.
(c) Buffalo Gap.
(d) Wounded Knee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Deloria also claims that many Christians are "married" to the idea that Columbus ___________________.

2. What does BIA stand for?

3. Chapter 16 discusses moral responsibility and ___________________.

4. What is the purpose of the American Indian Religious Freedom Resolution?

5. Deloria declares that the interpretation of religion has always been done through which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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