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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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) National Indian Youth Council.
(c) Bureau of Indidan Affairs.
(d) No answers are correct.

2. Chapter 7, "The Spatial Problem of History," addresses the spatial issues involved with which of the following?
(a) Traditional chronology.
(b) Ancestral lineage.
(c) No answer is correct.
(d) Historical events.

3. What is the purpose of the American Indian Religious Freedom Resolution?
(a) Forbids Indians from attending white churches.
(b) Protects the religion and ceremonial rites of American Indians.
(c) Protects Indian children from being forced to attend Sunday School.
(d) Allows whites to participate in Indian ceremonial rites.

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

5. Deloria claims it is widely believed that the lack of record keeping in American Indian history is probably responsible for which of the following?
(a) Lack of historical information.
(b) Lost dates and times.
(c) Mystery surrounding Indian events.
(d) Great oral traditions of the Indian tribes.

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

7. In Chapter 9, "Natural and Hybrid Peoples," Deloria discusses the various images invoked when one thinks about which of the following?
(a) Christian preachers.
(b) Indian warriors.
(c) A Supreme Being.
(d) Space Aliens.

8. Deloria asserts that Indian religions think of creation as the environment and how it relates to what?
(a) A specific place.
(b) Other planets.
(c) The moon.
(d) History.

9. Chapter 1 says that many people believed Indian settlements were located where?
(a) Sacred and forbidden to tourists.
(b) Sitting atop valuable resources, such as oil and minerals.
(c) Places for teenagers to party.
(d) Becoming extinct.

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

11. Deloria teaches that Indian religions view creation as which of the following?
(a) A developing relationship with other living things.
(b) Nothing important.
(c) Adam's first breath.
(d) A constantly evolving event.

12. In Chapter 8, the origins of religion are examined from which of the following?
(a) Japan to Alaska.
(b) The Germanic myth to Columbus.
(c) The Germanic myth to the Hopi.
(d) No answer is correct.

13. Deloria claims Christianity puts a great deal of focus on creation and what it means to _________.
(a) Relationships.
(b) Nature.
(c) Sin.
(d) Religion.

14. How did Deloria believe American Indians were treated?
(a) Unfairly.
(b) Differently than other ethnic groups.
(c) Well .
(d) Like everyone else.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Deloria explains that many Christian religions believe God exists how?

2. With regards to supernatural phenomena, such as meteors and supernovae, Deloria accuses Christians of which of the following?

3. Why were the Gallup Indians upset with the town?

4. In Chapter 6, another major distinction between Christianity and tribal religions that Deloria mentions is which of the following?

5. Deloria says that some tribal religions believe humans can turn into animals, birds and which of the following?

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