English 103 - Composition and Critical Thinking » Fall 2020 » Reel Injun Quiz

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Question #1
According to Hollywood’s criteria, what does it take to be a “good” or “noble” Indian?
A.   A stoic, silently suffering individual
B.   Someone who is connected to the earth
C.   All of these.
D.   Someone who "looks" like an Indian (i.e. someone in Hollywood's version of "traditional" tribal costume)
Question #2
Beginning in the 1930s, Hollywood starts to depict Native Americans as "savages." Why is this stereotype damaging?
A.   It equates them with Nazis.
B.   It depicts Natives as a threat to American progress and portrays them as vicious and bloodthirsty.
C.   It doesn't address tribal diversity.
D.   All of these.
Question #3
How has Hollywood film functioned as a tool of colonialism?
A.   By portraying Indians as subhuman, Indians--especially children--began to internalize this idea, seeing themselves as worthless.
B.   None of these.
C.   It's not a tool of colonialism; it's harmless entertainment.
D.   Hollywood has historically promoted positive images of Native Americans.
Question #4
To what extent did the shifting popular culture and various civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s alter the way that Native people were represented in film?
A.   They became symbolic of oppressed peoples in general.
B.   They became emblematic of broader social movements like the environmental movement
C.   All of these
D.   Indians became "cool" and their culture was commodified by the mainstream
Question #5
As John Trudell explains in the documentary, the American government “wiped out the [American Indian] Movement by the 1980s,” but what emerges from that movement, he argues, is a “renaissance” that offers Natives “a cultural, artistic voice” that we find, among other places, in films made by Native Americans. Why has this renaissance been so important?
A.   It helps them reclaim their identity as "noble" individuals
B.   It has led to greater commercial success in film
C.   It has increased tribal sovereignty
D.   It enables Indians to portray themselves without the filter of the white gaze. It gives them power of self-expression and self-definition

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