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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 Deloria believe American Indians were treated?
(a) Unfairly.
(b) Differently than other ethnic groups.
(c) Like everyone else.
(d) Well .

2. How was one way Indians tried to preserve their rights in Chapter 1?
(a) By holding hunger strikes.
(b) By using the legal system.
(c) By retaliating on white cemeteries.
(d) By holding whites hostage.

3. What does BIA stand for?
(a) Basic Indian Area.
(b) Brooklyn Indian Administration.
(c) Blackfoot Indian Association.
(d) Bureau of Indian Affairs.

4. Deloria says that some tribal religions believe humans can turn into animals, birds and which of the following?
(a) Other species can turn into humans.
(b) Once this is done they cannot change back.
(c) You can pick what you want to be.
(d) This happens automatically when you die.

5. In Chapter 5, which of the following Christian beliefs does Deloria claim concerns American Indians?
(a) Nature is not important.
(b) Man has dominion over the rest of creation.
(c) Jesus will come again.
(d) Sin exists in the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, Deloria claims Indians were stereotyped into two categories prior to the incident at _______________.

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

3. The author explains that Indian religions do not promote which of the following?

4. What is the purpose of the American Indian Religious Freedom Resolution?

5. The author emphasizes that Indian religions are not _________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Name some of the cultures Deloria compares when describing a Supreme Being.

2. Discuss the two Indian stereotypes identified by Deloria prior to the incident at Wounded Knee.

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

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

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

6. Discuss the term "Vanishing Americans."

7. How do American Indians tend to view their history and religion? Is this similar or different from traditional Western beliefs?

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

9. Another difference between Christianity and Indian religion is the belief regarding how sin entered the world. Explain.

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

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