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

2. Chapter 1 explains that the Indians revere their dead and believe their burial grounds to be _________.
(a) Private.
(b) Territorial.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Sacred.

3. In Chapter 1, why were many Indians arrested illegally?
(a) The Indians were not read their legal rights.
(b) Federal government did not have jurisdiction.
(c) The Indians were in Canada.
(d) It is illegal to arrest an Indian.

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

5. What are the two stereotypical categories Deloria refers to?
(a) Educated and uneducated.
(b) Warlike savages and wise old men.
(c) Murderers and horse thieves.
(d) Hunters and gathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Name one major development between 1972 and 1990 that was mentioned in Chapter 2.

2. During WWII, why did many Indians move to the west?

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

4. What was the reason for most Indian protests?

5. Deloria believes one of the greatest offenses to the Indian tribes was what?

(see the answer key)

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