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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 does Deloria claim the Iroquois and Cherokee use as part of their religious practices?
(a) Incense.
(b) Dream interpretation.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Rain dances.

2. In Chapter 16, how does Deloria explain why the Indians altered the dates of their ceremonial year?
(a) The BIA ordered them to do so.
(b) To make it easier to celebrate holidays.
(c) To make peace with the Christians.
(d) To coincide with governmental and Christian holidays.

3. In Chapter 17, Deloria complains that religious interpretation does not try to understand religious experiences beyond ________________.
(a) North America.
(b) What concerns most people.
(c) Mexico.
(d) The realm of Christianity.

4. Deloria names which of the following as the second type of sacred land?
(a) Wounded Knee.
(b) Buffalo Gap.
(c) Reservations.
(d) Where oil is discovered.

5. By the 1500's, Deloria claims it was popularly accepted that the Indians could live on their natural land, until which of the following took place?
(a) Such time as the invading Europeans need the land for themselves.
(b) They disobeyed the Europeans in any way.
(c) The older generation died.
(d) The turn of the century.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 15, what was wrong with the Pope's promise?

2. Name the example(s) of the most familiar type of sacred land according to Deloria.

3. Why have many people returned to the reservation according to Deloria?

4. While Christianity is a relationship between one person and God, how does Deloria explain tribal religions?

5. In Deloria's opinion, how has education affected tribal ways?

Short Essay Questions

1. Name the third type of sacred land Deloria mentions in the book.

2. How are dreams discussed in the chapter on human personality?

3. In Deloria's opinion, why is it a problem that some tribes choose not to use modern conveniences?

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

5. Explain the Indian philosophy of salvation and personal judgment.

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

7. How does Canada treat the Canadian Indian tribes?

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

9. Name a second type of sacred land.

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

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