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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Deloria believe American Indians were treated?
(a) Like everyone else.
(b) Unfairly.
(c) Well .
(d) Differently than other ethnic groups.

2. In Chapter 1, why was the publication of the National Indian Youth Council's pamphlet considered a monumental event?
(a) It involved the younger generation.
(b) It was written by fifth graders.
(c) It became mandatory reading.
(d) It was banned in every American high school.

3. Repeatedly, Deloria mentions that Indian tribal religions believe in a vital relationship between which of the following?
(a) Nature and humans.
(b) Nature and space.
(c) Humans and stars.
(d) Animals and trees.

4. What does Deloria believe caused science to pierce the veil of nature?
(a) Bunson burners.
(b) The atomic bomb.
(c) Modern medicine.
(d) Space shuttles.

5. Chapter 7, "The Spatial Problem of History," addresses the spatial issues involved with which of the following?
(a) No answer is correct.
(b) Ancestral lineage.
(c) Traditional chronology.
(d) Historical events.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Deloria believe some Christians will feel about his comparisons of Christianity and Indian tribal religions?

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

3. Chapter 6, "The Concept of History," relates religion to which of the following?

4. In Chapter3, ecologists tried to turn attention away from the Civil Rights Movement by turning attention to what?

5. In Chapter 5, the discussion states that there are many differences between what two religions?

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