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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the 1950's, the BIA initiated a relocation program in California in an attempt to sell something that belonged to the Indians. What were they trying to sell?
(a) Indian land.
(b) Reservations.
(c) Indian scalps.
(d) Indian jewelry.

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

3. Chapter 5 discusses the differences among religions on what topic?
(a) Death.
(b) Music.
(c) Life after death.
(d) Creation.

4. In Chapter 5, the author explains that some tribal religions believe humans can not only change into animals and birds, but they can also change into what?
(a) Witches and wizards.
(b) Other people.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Plants and rocks.

5. Name one reason mentioned in Chapter 4 that tribal religions hold a place sacred.
(a) No answer is correct.
(b) They love the land.
(c) They practice magic there.
(d) Their beliefs and experiences are based on relationships with other living things.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what issue was the 1968 protest?

2. What does BIA stand for?

3. The majority of Indian religions, claims Deloria, refuse to think of a supreme being how?

4. In Chapter 3, "The Religious Challenge," what incident is being discussed?

5. What are the two stereotypical categories Deloria refers to?

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