1. Finish this sentence: Deloria teaches that American Indians had almost no use for __________________________________.
(a) Religion.
(b) Keeping track of past events.
(c) Living long lives.
(d) Worshipping trees.

2. Deloria feels that religions that depend on articulation of doctrinal propositions to maintain themselves are which of the following?
(a) Doomed to disappear.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Destined to fail.
(d) Ultimately going to be rejected.

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

4. Chapter 12 details __________________ and how it affects religious cultures.
(a) Church hierarchy.
(b) Personal beliefs.
(c) Group mentality.
(d) Political movements.

5. Chapter 5 claims that Christian theology has a theory of how ____________.
(a) Sin entered the world.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Indians should worship.
(d) Nature relates to humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Deloria argues that Christian doctrines of repentance, conversion, redemption, salvation, confession, absolution, and eternal life were created directly as a response to religious beliefs on which of the following?

2. On what issue was the 1968 protest?

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

4. Deloria claims that the chronology of Christian culture and religious doctrine is dependent on the presence of which of the following?

5. According to Deloria in Chapter 11, what creates Christian denominations?

(see the answer key)

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