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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 Baptism, according to Deloria?
(a) Only for children.
(b) Totally unnecessary.
(c) Mechanical entrance into the next life.
(d) Becoming popular with Indian religions.

2. According to Deloria in Chapter 11, what creates Christian denominations?
(a) Geographic locations.
(b) The pope.
(c) Different governments.
(d) Doctrinal disagreements.

3. Deloria declares in Chapter 15 that to this day, which country still refuses to recognize land titles to their Indians?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Ireland.
(c) United States.
(d) Canada.

4. Deloria encourages cultures outside tribal cultures to do which of the following?
(a) Observe tribal religious traditions.
(b) Abandon Christianity.
(c) Respect sacred places.
(d) Embrace the correlation between religion and nature.

5. Deloria believes tribal religions have an advantage over Christians because their ceremonies involve the entire community and which of the following?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Have 100% participation.
(c) Are not boring.
(d) Create cohesion and unity.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Deloria in Chapter 11, what Christian community is admired by countless followers of Indian religions?

2. In Chapter 10, what is Deloria's opinion of an afterlife with no difficulties?

3. 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?

4. Name the example Deloria gives for the third type of sacred land.

5. Deloria believes that Western commercial interests and Christianity have gone hand in hand to do which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Indians feel about hanging criminals?

2. How does Canada treat the Canadian Indian tribes?

3. Deloria states that Christianity is not wrong, but that if there ever is an internal collapse in Christian doctrine, what will be there?

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

6. Name a second type of sacred land.

7. Deloria names three types of sacred lands. Describe one of them.

8. According to Deloria, what is the major difference between Christianity and Indian religions in regards to death?

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

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

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