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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. What is the Christian doctrine of life after death?
(a) No life at all.
(b) Living in bright light.
(c) Living as butterflies.
(d) The resurrection of the body.

2. According to Deloria, in American Indian tribal religions there is a noticeable absence of which of the following?
(a) Baptisms.
(b) The fear of death.
(c) Life after death beliefs.
(d) Cemetaries.

3. Deloria explains Christian religious interpretation is derived from which of the following?
(a) The pope.
(b) Christian doctrine.
(c) Indian chiefs.
(d) Billy Graham.

4. Why have many people returned to the reservation according to Deloria?
(a) To be healed from ailments.
(b) To lean rain dances.
(c) To attend new universities.
(d) They missed their families.

5. 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) No answer is correct.
(b) This really didn't happen.
(c) To ease the conscience of the killers.
(d) Baptized babies go to heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, Deloria states that Indian tribal religions do not believe in which of the following?

2. In Chapter 16, how does Deloria explain why the Indians altered the dates of their ceremonial year?

3. Almost universally, Deloria claims tribal religions produced people ___________________.

4. 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?

5. Some tribes, such as the Lakota and Sioux, held special death ceremonies where a sacred pipe was used and the souls were kept to be purified and eventually released. What happened to these ceremonies in the 1890's?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two propositions that have to do with life and the hereafter? Where did these propositions originate?

2. Deloria claims modern people often returned to the reservations. What is his reason for saying this?

3. Name a few of the religious doctrines Deloria believes pertain to the human personality.

4. What did Arnold Toynbee mean by his comment that viewing a map of the Mediterranean was pretending it was a map of the world?

5. Name a second type of sacred land.

6. Why did Deloria feel it was a problem for Indians to convert to Christianity?

7. According to Deloria, how are developments of contemporary American culture and Indian tribal cultures different?

8. What did "God is Red" list as a disadvantage of the reservations in terms of religion?

9. Explain Deloria's feelings of near death experiences as they pertain to the hereafter.

10. What ceremony did the federal government ban in the 1890's?

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