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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. The author explains that Indian religions do not promote which of the following?
(a) No answer is correct.
(b) Relationships with nature.
(c) Any creation theory.
(d) A personal relationship with God.

2. Chapter 4 discusses the fact that liberals tend to ___________________________.
(a) Vote democratic.
(b) Be more sympathetic to mankind.
(c) Support Indian causes.
(d) Vote republican.

3. Deloria believes Christian theologians have failed to explain how ___________________.
(a) Adam came to exist.
(b) Evil can exist in a perfect world.
(c) Creation evolved.
(d) Sin is perceived.

4. In Chapter 3, the explosion of the New Age culture is attributed to people being interested in creating their own religion to suit their needs. Name another non-traditional form of worship that drew attention from the New Age culture.
(a) Demonology.
(b) Astrology.
(c) Numerology
(d) All answers are correct.

5. After the 1968 protest, where was the next major protest held?
(a) Sacramento, California.
(b) Boulder, Colorado.
(c) Memphis, Tennessee.
(d) Gallup, New Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Deloria believe caused science to pierce the veil of nature?

2. Christianity and Indians agree that there is a significant role of ________________ in religion.

3. According to the author, one of the first distinctions between Christianity and Indian religions is what?

4. On what issue was the 1968 protest?

5. What group accused the Gallup Chamber of Commerce of holding a Gallup ceremony in which Indians were not allowed to participate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Deloria and a radio talk show host find so funny and why?

2. How does the Indian connection to nature relate to their religious beliefs?

3. Discuss the two Indian stereotypes identified by Deloria prior to the incident at Wounded Knee.

4. How do American Indians tend to view their history and religion? Is this similar or different from traditional Western beliefs?

5. How and by whom were Indian burial grounds desecrated?

6. What did the explosion of New Age culture, numerology, astrology, martial arts, shamanism and witchcraft have in common according to Deloria?

7. Was it a good thing that Americans began to take more interest in the American Indians in the late 1960's? Why?

8. Why did a group of Mohawk Indians block the Canadian border at Cornwall Bridge?

9. How do tribal religions interpret creation?

10. Why were ecologists jealous of the Civil Rights Movement?

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