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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter3, ecologists tried to turn attention away from the Civil Rights Movement by turning attention to what?
(a) Bacteria in the ocean.
(b) The environment.
(c) Ocean temperature.
(d) The continent's rapidly deteriorating ecosystem.

2. How did large groups of whites defile Indian burial grounds?
(a) Posting offensive posters.
(b) Robbing the graves.
(c) Painting the tombstones.
(d) Burning the area.

3. In Chapter 2, Deloria claims Indians were stereotyped into two categories prior to the incident at _______________.
(a) Wounded Knee.
(b) The Colorado River.
(c) Gallop, New Mexico.
(d) Little Big Horn.

4. During the 1960's and 1970's, large numbers of American Indians lived in what areas?
(a) Texas and New Mexico.
(b) The West, around the Great Lakes, and in the southeastern U. S.
(c) The Rocky Mountains.
(d) Montana.

5. Finish this sentence: Deloria teaches that American Indians had almost no use for __________________________________.
(a) Keeping track of past events.
(b) Worshipping trees.
(c) Living long lives.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does BIA stand for?

2. However, regarding time, the author said the Plains Indians use an animal hide to do what?

3. During the 1950's, the BIA initiated a relocation program in California in an attempt to sell something that belonged to the Indians. What were they trying to sell?

4. In Chapter 1, Deloria claims that the domestic affairs of the United States included the American Indians up until what date?

5. Deloria claims that many cultures perceive God as man because of which of the following?

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