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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Christianity is a relationship between one person and God, how does Deloria explain tribal religions?
(a) Always changing.
(b) A covenant between a particular god and a particular community.
(c) More complicated because of ceremonial rites.
(d) Not as personal.

2. In what manner was it legal for the Europeans to confiscate the Indian land?
(a) By force or purchase.
(b) By force only.
(c) By purchase only.
(d) No answer is correct.

3. In Chapter 14, Deloria saw one advantage of reservations as which of the following?
(a) They had their own schools and hospitals.
(b) It kept outsiders away from the Indians.
(c) They were able to practice their own religion.
(d) No one bothered them.

4. Name the example Deloria gives for the third type of sacred land.
(a) Where Indians are buried.
(b) Where the Lord spoke to Moses.
(c) Where monuments are built.
(d) Where presidents are buried.

5. Deloria explains that the Amish relate land, community, and religion into _____________________.
(a) Anti-Christian beliefs.
(b) One integrated whole.
(c) No answer is correct.
(d) A disastrous combination.

6. In Chapter 10, Deloria claims the Spanish would have a priest standing by to baptize a fetus after killing its mother and before killing it. Why would they feel a baptism was necessary?
(a) Baptized babies go to heaven.
(b) No answer is correct.
(c) To ease the conscience of the killers.
(d) This really didn't happen.

7. The American Indian Religious Freedom Act gave Congress which of the following powers?
(a) Change the tribal ceremonial year holiday dates.
(b) Protect and preserve the practice of traditional tribal religious ceremonies.
(c) Close on tribal holidays.
(d) Restrict traditional tribal religious ceremonies.

8. Deloria believes that the distinction between the immortality of the soul and the Christian ideal of the resurrection of the dead is best described as which of the following?
(a) As a vital one.
(b) Confusing to the Indians.
(c) As irrelevant.
(d) As something that should not even be discussed.

9. Deloria claims that religion dominates a tribal culture and which of the following?
(a) Ceremonial activities are not political.
(b) Political activity and religious activity are always clearly defined.
(c) Political activity and religious activity are intertwined.
(d) Political activity is less important.

10. By the 1500's, Deloria claims it was popularly accepted that the Indians could live on their natural land, until which of the following took place?
(a) The older generation died.
(b) The turn of the century.
(c) They disobeyed the Europeans in any way.
(d) Such time as the invading Europeans need the land for themselves.

11. Deloria believes tribal religions did not consider life after death _________________.
(a) To be important.
(b) To differ much from the life they were living.
(c) To be threatening.
(d) To be real.

12. In Chapter 16, how does Deloria explain why the Indians altered the dates of their ceremonial year?
(a) The BIA ordered them to do so.
(b) To make it easier to celebrate holidays.
(c) To coincide with governmental and Christian holidays.
(d) To make peace with the Christians.

13. According to Deloria, what was a repercussion of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act?
(a) It made other religions want their own act.
(b) It created problems when referred to in litigation regarding construction projects and federal land management.
(c) No answer is correct.
(d) Christian riots were held in protest.

14. What major reason did Deloria give for the Indians' refusal to give up their land to the whites?
(a) Spiritual ancestors live on the land.
(b) They loved the land more than their life.
(c) Their wise men told them not to surrender.
(d) They knew the land would be valuable some day.

15. In Chapter 15, Deloria claims that in 1493, the Pope promised which of the following?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Conversion of Indians.
(c) Property in Italy.
(d) Land entitlements.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11, Deloria claims religion must relate to which of the following?

2. The title of Chapter Ten is "___________ and Religion."

3. If Christianity faces internal collapse, Deloria offers which of the following suggestions?

4. In Chapter 15, Deloria said the United States established a claims commission in order to do which of the following?

5. Deloria's negative opinion of Oral Roberts stems from what event?

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