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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened over time to young Indian men who wanted to enter the ministry?
(a) They became Methodist ministers.
(b) They became priests in the Catholic Church.
(c) They were rejected.
(d) They were sent away to school.

2. What was the first concern of mission work on the reservation?
(a) Getting clothing for the Indians.
(b) Getting the Indians food.
(c) Land on which to build churches, homes, storehouses and other monuments.
(d) Getting the Indians to come to church.

3. Who was Clyde Warrior?
(a) A writer.
(b) Perhaps the greatest wit in Indian country.
(c) A poet.
(d) An artist.

4. In 1966, what did the secret Presidential Task Force recommend doing with the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
(a) Transfer the Bureau to the Dept. of the Interior.
(b) Transfer the Bureau to Health, Education and Welfare.
(c) Transfer the Bureau to the Commerce Department.
(d) Transfer the Bureau to the War Department.

5. Under what presidential administration did the policy of Relocation begin?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Truman.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Roosevelt.

6. How does the Native American Church view death?
(a) As a symbol of peace.
(b) As a punishment.
(c) As a warning from God.
(d) As a natural occurrence and not a special punishment.

7. What, according to the joke, is a peace treaty?
(a) "When a white man wants pieces of your soul."
(b) "When a white man wants a piece of your land."
(c) "When a white man wants a piece of your mind."
(d) "When a white man want a piece of you."

8. What is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for the area offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
(a) Lack of manpower.
(b) Lack of funds.
(c) Lack of computers.
(d) Lack of resources for buidling projects.

9. Why are the Five Civilized Tribes thus named?
(a) Because they were scouts for the French.
(b) Because they were the most like white men.
(c) Because they had European contact.
(d) Because they were civilized.

10. Where did Billy Mills grow up?
(a) Topeka, Kansas.
(b) Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
(c) Sioux City, South Dakota.
(d) Enid, Oklahoma.

11. What, according to the author, will happen to America in the end?
(a) The National Parks will be given away.
(b) It will be returned to the American Indian.
(c) It will be overrun by other countries.
(d) The land will be owned by non-Americans.

12. In 1964, what percentage of Indians thought the United States should get out of Vietnam?
(a) 85 percent.
(b) 10 percent.
(c) 15 percent.
(d) 80 percent.

13. What did Popovi Da say about the Indians being the first people in American?
(a) "We love the reservation, what's not to love?"
(b) "We had reservations."
(c) "We knew a good thing when we saw it."
(d) "We saw it first."

14. What was the main goal of the Bureau of Indian Affairs when it was started?
(a) To drive the Indians to reservations.
(b) To dirve the Indians to Oklahoma.
(c) To make sure the Indian became extinct.
(d) To prevent the extinction of the Indian.

15. What did Billy Mills do?
(a) He became the first Indian Senator.
(b) He became the first Indian astronaut.
(c) He won the ten thousand meter run at the Olympics.
(d) He was a pole vaulter at the Olympics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the result of Christian missions on the reservations?

2. During the 1950s, where were the Indian Health Services transferred to?

3. What is the most popular and enduring subject of Indian humor?

4. When the buffalo were gone, what did the Sioux eat to keep from starving?

5. What does the Native American Church use in its sacramental worship life?

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