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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group accused the Gallup Chamber of Commerce of holding a Gallup ceremony in which Indians were not allowed to participate?
(a) Central Intelligence Agency.
(b) Bureau of Indidan Affairs.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) National Indian Youth Council.

2. How did large groups of whites defile Indian burial grounds?
(a) Painting the tombstones.
(b) Robbing the graves.
(c) Burning the area.
(d) Posting offensive posters.

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

4. Deloria believes one of the greatest offenses to the Indian tribes was what?
(a) Forcing them to cut their hair.
(b) The desecration of burial grounds.
(c) Changing their names.
(d) Locking them in jail.

5. In Chapter3, ecologists tried to turn attention away from the Civil Rights Movement by turning attention to what?
(a) The environment.
(b) Ocean temperature.
(c) The continent's rapidly deteriorating ecosystem.
(d) Bacteria in the ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the American public learn a great deal about American Indians?

2. During the 1960's, what made the American people realize that there were still a large number of American Indians in the United States?

3. In Chapter 2, Deloria claims Indians were stereotyped into two categories prior to the incident at _______________.

4. Chapter 1 says that many people believed Indian settlements were located where?

5. In Chapter 2, what brought even more attention to the American Indians?

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