View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Deloria teaches that Indian religions view creation as which of the following?
(a) A developing relationship with other living things.
(b) Nothing important.
(c) Adam's first breath.
(d) A constantly evolving event.

2. Deloria explains that the Amish relate land, community, and religion into _____________________.
(a) Anti-Christian beliefs.
(b) A disastrous combination.
(c) No answer is correct.
(d) One integrated whole.

3. Why have many people returned to the reservation according to Deloria?
(a) They missed their families.
(b) To attend new universities.
(c) To lean rain dances.
(d) To be healed from ailments.

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

5. How were the Indians arrested at the 1968 protest punished?
(a) Moved to Canada.
(b) Forced to apologize.
(c) Sentenced to life in prison.
(d) Tried and acquitted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 7, "The Spatial Problem of History," addresses the spatial issues involved with which of the following?

2. In Chapter 9, "Natural and Hybrid Peoples," Deloria discusses the various images invoked when one thinks about which of the following?

3. 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?

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

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 287 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample