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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the BIA ordered to find areas for the California Indians to reside?
(a) During WWI.
(b) During WWII.
(c) During the Civil Rights Movement.
(d) During the Great Depression.

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

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

4. Why did some whites dig up Indian bodies from their graves?
(a) To sell the bones.
(b) To sell the buried treasure.
(c) To sell the skulls.
(d) To sell the clothes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 5 claims that Christian theology has a theory of how ____________.

2. Chapter 7, "The Spatial Problem of History," addresses the spatial issues involved with which of the following?

3. In Chapter 5, the author believes Christians tend to see creation as the beginning of time and what?

4. By the 1960's, how did many tribes across the country begin to protest their treatment?

5. What does Deloria believe caused science to pierce the veil of nature?

Short Essay Questions

1. the 1860's, how did the American Indian suffer at the hand of federal bureaucrats?

2. Discuss why Young Chief, a Cayuse, refused to sign the Treaty of Walla Walla.

3. Explain the Christian idea of creation.

4. How did WWII impact the Indians?

5. How are beliefs based on political persuasion, as explained by Deloria?

6. Why did a group of Mohawk Indians block the Canadian border at Cornwall Bridge?

7. Why does Deloria consider the origin of religion vague?

8. How did the Indians come to receive financial donations from Christian denominations, and why did it take so long?

9. Why does Deloria believe the Christian ideal of keeping peace on earth is not true?

10. How and by whom were Indian burial grounds desecrated?

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