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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Chapter 1 says that the first great protest was held on what border?
(a) Canadian.
(b) Alaskan.
(c) Mexican.
(d) Mississippi.

3. On what issue was the 1968 protest?
(a) Farming rights along borderlines.
(b) The boundary line between two territories.
(c) A new Indian curfew.
(d) Government assessing tolls for crossing a bridge.

4. Indians also believe human beings are an integral part of the natural world. How does Deloria explain what happens to the bodies upon their death?
(a) Disappear.
(b) Turn to dust and blow away.
(c) Turn to dust that nourishes the plants and animals that fed them during their lifetime.
(d) Join the Great Spirit.

5. Chapter 5 discusses the differences among religions on what topic?
(a) Creation.
(b) Life after death.
(c) Music.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author explains that Indian religions do not promote which of the following?

2. Deloria asserts that Indian religions think of creation as the environment and how it relates to what?

3. While Christianity is a relationship between one person and God, how does Deloria explain tribal religions?

4. Deloria believes that historically, in regards to a Supreme Being, humans have transferred their own personality traits onto the deity. This statement is made to support his description of the Christian God as what?

5. What was the reason for most Indian protests?

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