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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Deloria, when telling a story, an Indian may say it happened long ago without stating a specific what?
(a) Year.
(b) Day.
(c) Month.
(d) Date or time.

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

4. How does Deloria believe some Christians will feel about his comparisons of Christianity and Indian tribal religions?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Angry.
(c) Upset.
(d) Sympathetic.

5. Although tribal religions do believe in creation, Deloria states they do not believe in which of the following?
(a) No answer is correct.
(b) Rights of trees.
(c) Importance of sin.
(d) Fall from grace.

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

7. After the 1968 protest, where was the next major protest held?
(a) Sacramento, California.
(b) Boulder, Colorado.
(c) Memphis, Tennessee.
(d) Gallup, New Mexico.

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

9. In Chapter 5, Deloria explains that the Indian beliefs of creation go back to what concept?
(a) Time and space.
(b) Old verses new.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Chronological events.

10. The National Indian Youth Council published a pamphlet to inform the public of Gallup's actions. What was the title of this pamphlet?
(a) "How to Treat Indians."
(b) "Wait Until We Get Even."
(c) "Shame on Gallup."
(d) "When Our Grandfathers Had Guns."

11. In Chapter 1, why was the publication of the National Indian Youth Council's pamphlet considered a monumental event?
(a) It involved the younger generation.
(b) It was written by fifth graders.
(c) It was banned in every American high school.
(d) It became mandatory reading.

12. Repeatedly, Deloria mentions that Indian tribal religions believe in a vital relationship between which of the following?
(a) Nature and humans.
(b) Animals and trees.
(c) Humans and stars.
(d) Nature and space.

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

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

15. Finish this sentence: Deloria teaches that American Indians had almost no use for __________________________________.
(a) Keeping track of past events.
(b) Religion.
(c) Living long lives.
(d) Worshipping trees.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do some Americans object to the term "Native Americans"?

3. In Chapter 5, the author explains that some tribal religions believe humans can not only change into animals and birds, but they can also change into what?

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

5. In Chapter 6, the author explains that American Indians held no importance for which of the following?

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