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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, Deloria claims Indians were stereotyped into two categories prior to the incident at _______________.
(a) The Colorado River.
(b) Gallop, New Mexico.
(c) Wounded Knee.
(d) Little Big Horn.

2. In Chapter 3, "The Religious Challenge," what incident is being discussed?
(a) Peaceful co-existence between Indians and Whites.
(b) Ceremonial Indian affairs.
(c) Wounded Knee.
(d) The ransacking of a federal building.

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

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

5. Until the 1970's, why did the term "vanishing Americans" refer to American Indians?
(a) Most of them had died.
(b) They all moved to Canada.
(c) There were not any at Wal Mart.
(d) Most believed they were extinct.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. According to Chapter 3, when was there rampant interest in American Indian traditions?

4. In Chapter 1, why were many Indians arrested illegally?

5. The first great protest was held in 1968 by the __________ Indians.

(see the answer key)

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