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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the American Indian Religious Freedom Resolution?
(a) Protects the religion and ceremonial rites of American Indians.
(b) Forbids Indians from attending white churches.
(c) Protects Indian children from being forced to attend Sunday School.
(d) Allows whites to participate in Indian ceremonial rites.

2. Deloria claims Christianity puts a great deal of focus on creation and what it means to _________.
(a) Nature.
(b) Religion.
(c) Relationships.
(d) Sin.

3. Deloria explains that many Christian religions believe God exists how?
(a) No answer is correct.
(b) In human form.
(c) Only inside churches.
(d) Only in America.

4. In Chapter 5, the author believes Christians tend to see creation as the beginning of time and what?
(a) A mythological tale.
(b) A divine plan.
(c) The beginning of religion.
(d) A specific sequence of events.

5. Although tribal religions do believe in creation, Deloria states they do not believe in which of the following?
(a) Fall from grace.
(b) Importance of sin.
(c) Rights of trees.
(d) No answer is correct.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, "Natural and Hybrid Peoples," Deloria discusses the various images invoked when one thinks about which of the following?

2. Deloria believes that historically, in regards to a Supreme Being, humans have transferred their own personality traits onto the deity. This statement is made to support his description of the Christian God as what?

3. What are the two stereotypical categories Deloria refers to?

4. Deloria asserts that Indian religions think of creation as the environment and how it relates to what?

5. Deloria teaches that many tribal religions refer to God as which of the following?

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