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

2. Name one reason mentioned in Chapter 4 that tribal religions hold a place sacred.
(a) No answer is correct.
(b) They love the land.
(c) They practice magic there.
(d) Their beliefs and experiences are based on relationships with other living things.

3. Deloria claims in Chapter 1 that "token" Indians were always present on what holidays?
(a) Columbus Day and Thanksgiving.
(b) Christmas and New Years.
(c) Easter and Christmas.
(d) Thanksgiving and Memorial Day.

4. According to the author, one of the first distinctions between Christianity and Indian religions is what?
(a) The supreme being is perceived.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) The fact that Christians worship in buildings.
(d) The day of the week they worship.

5. 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?
(a) Plants and rocks.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Witches and wizards.
(d) Other people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Using the example of the Crusades, Deloria accuses Christians of which of the following?

2. Chapter 5 says Christians believe creation began when?

3. The majority of Indian religions, claims Deloria, refuse to think of a supreme being how?

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. How does Chapter 1 claim the Indians were treated by many of the gold rush miners?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Explain the use of the term "Grandfather" in Indian cultures.

4. Explain the Christian idea of creation.

5. How did WWII impact the Indians?

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

7. Why did the Indians begin protesting in the 1960's?

8. Why are Indians concerned with man's domination over the rest of creation?

9. Was it a good thing that Americans began to take more interest in the American Indians in the late 1960's? Why?

10. Why did the National Indian Youth Council publish a pamphlet titled, "When Our Grandfathers Had Guns?"

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