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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. On what issue was the 1968 protest?
(a) Government assessing tolls for crossing a bridge.
(b) Farming rights along borderlines.
(c) The boundary line between two territories.
(d) A new Indian curfew.

2. Chapter 5 says Christians believe creation began when?
(a) We are born.
(b) When Adam enters the world.
(c) No answer is correct.
(d) At conception.

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

4. Chapter 5 claims that Christian theology has a theory of how ____________.
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Nature relates to humans.
(c) Sin entered the world.
(d) Indians should worship.

5. Until the 1970's, why did the term "vanishing Americans" refer to American Indians?
(a) Most of them had died.
(b) There were not any at Wal Mart.
(c) Most believed they were extinct.
(d) They all moved to Canada.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Chapter 1 says that many people believed Indian settlements were located where?

3. Finish this sentence: Deloria teaches that American Indians had almost no use for __________________________________.

4. In the 1960's, the Indians protested against government programs that stripped timber from their forests. What other privilege was taken away?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the different reactions of Christians and Indians to supernatural phenomena, such as meteors and supernovae.

2. What did the explosion of New Age culture, numerology, astrology, martial arts, shamanism and witchcraft have in common according to Deloria?

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

4. Why were ecologists jealous of the Civil Rights Movement?

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

6. Discuss the term "Vanishing Americans."

7. When considering a Supreme Being, in addition to physical images, what type of personality traits might he possess and why?

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

9. Deloria states some devout Christians may be upset by comparing God to Supreme Beings of other religious groups. Why?

10. How did WWII impact the Indians?

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