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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Deloria believe caused science to pierce the veil of nature?
(a) Space shuttles.
(b) The atomic bomb.
(c) Bunson burners.
(d) Modern medicine.

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

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

4. Deloria believes Christian theologians have failed to explain how ___________________.
(a) Adam came to exist.
(b) Evil can exist in a perfect world.
(c) Creation evolved.
(d) Sin is perceived.

5. Why were the Gallup Indians upset with the town?
(a) The Indians were not allowed to attend school.
(b) For excluding them from civic events.
(c) The Indians were worked as slaves.
(d) There were no Indian restaurants.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1960's, the Indians protested against government programs that stripped timber from their forests. What other privilege was taken away?

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

3. Until the 1970's, why did the term "vanishing Americans" refer to American Indians?

4. Deloria claims that many cultures perceive God as man because of which of the following?

5. In Chapter 5, Deloria explains that the Indian beliefs of creation go back to what concept?

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